Very short content of "Quiet Flows the Don" by Sholokhov
After reading the summary of "Quiet Flows the Don", you will necessarily want to get acquainted with the whole novel.
From the very beginning, the author begins to describe the yard of Melekhovoy, which is located on the very edge of the farm. The reader is told the story of this family, the main member of which is Grigory.
His grandfather even in his youth married an unprepossessingThe woman he brought with him from the campaign. Because of this, Grandfather Gregory and his father broke a conflict in a lifetime, because his father was against his marriage to a stranger.
Choosing a foreign wife, he had to becomea hermit and settle in the outskirts, soon they had a child, whom they called Pantelei. He was very much like his mother, as dark and black-eyed. When the boy grew up, he began to help his father in the household, and soon he married a Cossack girl. In a happy marriage, children began to appear. Pantelei had four children: two sons Petro and Gregory, and two daughters Dunyasha and Daria.
And just at this time Gregory is called uponwar, which lasted 4 years. The description of the war begins, the short content "Quiet Flows the Don" will not give you a full account of all the spectacular battles in which Grigory took part. In the second battle, he is wounded in the head, and news of his death will reach his native village. After some time this information will be refuted, and Natalia will go to Aksinya to ask her to leave her husband alone. At the same time, Gregory's daughter dies, and Aksinya begins to take courtship from Listinsky. After another injury, Gregory is sent home, rumors of the infidelity of a loved one reach him instantly, and he decides to return to his wife.
Summary "Quiet Flows the Don" will not give you all that storm of emotions that you can get when reading the complete work.
The main character is disappointed in the war and in the homeland. Gregory wants to be arrested because he fought for the Whites to save his life, he has to flee from his native lands. He returns home only after the news of the uprising of the Cossacks. His brother serves for the Reds, but he is taken in a deceptive way into captivity and killed. The death of his brother and the war are bad for the state of Gregory, he begins to abuse alcohol.
A real masterpiece of fiction is the work Quiet Flows the Don. The very brief content of this article does not allow describing all the interesting subjects of the novel.
In the end, the main character loses almost everything, dieshis father from illness, his beloved Aksinya dying in the field from a bullet wound. The unfortunate Gregory realizes that he has nothing left in life except children, and he returns to them.
The life of an ordinary Cossack was described in his novel by Sholokhov "The Quiet Don". The brief content of this work of almost all readers suggests to familiarize with it entirely.