Don Stories. Part 1

This audio book includes several stories by Mikhail Sholokhov from the Don cycle, masterfully narrated by his fellow countryman Igor Georgievich Taradaykin.

Mikhail Sholokhov was a witness and participant in the bloody events of the civil war that swept our country at the beginning of the 20th century. The attitude of the Cossacks toward the revolution, the тяжкість of choosing the right side, and the necessity of lifting weapons against brothers—everything that writer himself experienced.

The stories included in this collection—“Rodinka” (“The Freckle”), “Koloverty,” “A Family Man,” “Alien Blood”—are dry, low-emotion stories, and that’s why they’re incredibly believable: tales of ordinary lives caught in the merciless wheels of revolutionary change. Even death is portrayed with extreme mundanity—behind it you can feel the incredible tragedy of the time, where dying has become familiar and unremarkable.