National Sholokhov Museum-Reserve

National Sholokhov Museum-Reserve
View of Sholokhov's kuren (Cossack dwelling)
Location within Russia
Established1984
Location60, Sholokhova street, Vyoshenskaya, Sholokhovsky District, Rostov oblast, Russia
Coordinates49°37′35″N 41°43′43″E / 49.626440°N 41.728746°E / 49.626440; 41.728746
DirectorOlga Anistrotenko
Website

The National Sholokhov Museum-Reserve (Russian: Музей Шолохова, romanized: Muzyey Sholokhova) is a museum complex in Rostov oblast, Russia which commemorates the life and work of author Mikhail Sholokhov. The main exhibits are located in an apartment where he lived in stanitsa of Vyoshenskaya, and in a house in which he worked on portions of his novel And Quiet Flows the Don. The museum complex was founded in 1984. Its collections comprise over 70,000 items. The collections occupy a complex of five historic buildings in Vyoshenskaya, Karginskaya, Kruzhilinskaya, Rostov-on-Don: khutors, villa of architect N. Sokolov, exhibition center, memorial and historical complex.