World history: The exhibition from the collection of the M. A. Sholokhov Museum-Reserve dedicated to the First World War Centenary in the Pushkin Hills

The exhibition “…Remember with salt, bread, Quiet Don, your children!” from the collection of the M. A. Sholokhov Museum-Reserve opened in the Pushkin Reserve (the Pskov region).

The exhibition is dedicated to the First World War Centenary. It gives visitors the opportunity to remember the Great War, the Russian soldiers, sons of Quiet Flows the Don, who performed feats and died as heroes. This war was largely forgotten, and for new generations of Russians - unknown, since the Revolution, the Civil War, and then – the World War II pushed it into the background.

The novel by M. A. Sholokhov "Quiet Flows the Don" - one of the few domestic works on this topic. It surprisingly accurately recreates the picture of the First World War and the internal state of the people involved in it. Realism in the image, the historicity and authenticity of the events give artistic text character of the documentary narrative. The exhibition features more than 200 exhibits from the collections of the M. A. Sholokhov Museum-Reserve: photos, letters, medals and badges of the First World War, military equipment, weapons, ammunition, paintings and graphic works by famous artists, postcards and woodcut pictures with Don Cossacks and their exploits.