The epic novel by Mikhail Sholokhov 'And Quiet Flows the Don' is one of the most significant, large-scale and talented works of Russian-language literature, which earned the author the Nobel Prize. The action of the novel takes place among the most important events in the history of Russia in the first half of the 20th century — the revolution and the civil war, which changed not only the ancient way of life of the Don Cossacks, to whom the main character Grigory Melekhov belongs, but also the fate and appearance of the entire country. In this grand work there has been found a place for almost everything most fascinating that fiction can offer the reader: here are great historical realities, love intrigues, and descriptions of the daily life of long-vanished ways of life, numerous heroic and tragic events created with great artistic power and mastery, all the more astonishing since Mikhail Sholokhov was twenty years old at the moment when he was creating the first part of the novel.