The Don Cossacks. Along the Places of the Novel "The Quiet Don"

Not far from the mill there is a school where the young Sholokhov studied the Law of God, the Church Slavonic language, the Russian language (reading, writing, grammar), arithmetic.
The desk, at which he used to study, is preserved in the Museum. The atmosphere in the classroom has been reconstructed according to memories of the writer's classmates and old residents of the village. Other halls have an exhibition entitled People's Education on the Don.
A list of tours and ticket prices can be found at website.

M.A. Sholokhov's parent estate, the Cossack Homestead of the late 19th - early 20th centuries, the monument "The Cossacks of the Quiet Don". It is a reconstruction, giving a vivid idea of the Don Cossacks' way of life, described in the novel "The Quiet Don".
If you wish, you can feed poultry, milk a cow, drown a stove, and after the daily routine of the Cossacks you can taste homemade treats: cholodets, eggs on lard, puffs with honey, the famous Don "vzvar".
You can find out the cost of tickets by visiting the official museum website.

Here, in the village of Vyoshenskaya - the small birthplace of the writer Mikhail Sholokhov, the monument, which weighs 12 tons and is 6.5 metres high, illustrates the meeting of the main characters of the novel "The Quiet Don": Grigory and Aksinya. It is the passage where the man on the horse blocks her way.
The model was coordinated with the writer himself, but it was produced and installed on the banks of the Don River only 26 years later: in 1957. Sculptor - N. V. Mozhaev.

It's time for lunch. The cafe is located on the territory of the hotel. It offers traditional Cossack cuisine.
The cafe is open daily, except for Mondays, from 12:00 to 00:00.
Tel: +7 (86353) 2-34-11.

From here you have one of the most picturesque views of the Don River. You can enjoy the incredible beauty from the height. And down goes a precipitous bank, reaching 40 meters high. Beware: the descent to the water is not equipped and can be dangerous

A brave Cossack with a sword in his right hand, riding a reared horse. Monument "To the Valiant Don Cossacks", towering over the Khopyor River.
From the foot of the monument opens up a wonderful beauty panorama of one of the cleanest rivers in Europe, chalky mountains and straight ribbon stretching into the distance road.
The monumental work of the architect Bulkin, the sculptor Mozhaev and the chaser Proschaylo.

To the right of the Dashing Cossack there is a stone witness of an entirely different era - the Ice Age!
The stone, measuring 2 by 3 metres, descended together with the glacier along the Don valley from the territory of modern Scandinavia.

If necessary, you can stop at a gas station, fill up the car and buy food and drinks for tomorrow on the way.

It was a very busy day, time for dinner. There are kebabs and meat dishes, pizza, shawarma on the cafe menu.

And after a hearty dinner, it's time to settle in and rest properly.