“The Quiet Don” is a large-scale epic canvas that tells about the Don Cossacks in the most controversial, critical period in the history of our country - the bloody First World War and the fratricidal Civil War, when, according to Sholokhov himself, “in a mortal fight, brother goes to brother, son to father. What happened in the souls of people in this troubled time, how did it happen that the most dear, close people stood on opposite sides of the barricades and turned into mortal enemies?

In depth of understanding of reality, amazing accuracy in describing the characters of this work , perhaps, there is no equal. A book that is talked about and argued to this day!