A Roman-epic of Mikhail Шолохова is "Quiet Don" - one of most considerable, scale and talented works of Russian-language literature, bringing the Nobel prize to the author. The action of novel takes place on a background major events in history of Russia of the first half of ХХ of century - revolution and Civil war, changing not only the ancient mode of the Don cossacks a protagonist Grigory Мелехов belongs to that but also fate, and look of entire country. In this grandiose work there was a place how hardly not for all enthralling, that can offer to the reader fiction: here both great historical realities and love-affairs, and descriptions of a long ago disappearing ways of life, numerous heroic and tragic events created with large artistic force and mastery, the more striking, that to Mikhail Шолохову on a moment creations of the first part of novel hardly anymore twenty years were carried out.Contains an unprintable bad language