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Quiet Flows the Don in Paintings by Vladimir Begma

Lisa Mokhova (by Vladimir Begma)

I have been thinking recently that I barely wrote anything about Quiet Flows the Don in the last 2 years. Perhaps, I was unconsciously waiting for the exhibition of paintings inspired by the novel that is on display at the State Mikhail Sholokhov Museum-Reserve in Veshenskaya, Rostov Region.

The exhibition “Under the Don sky” comprises the work of Vladimir Begma, the Honoured Artist and the member of Russia’s Painters Union. In his own words, Begma first read Sholokhov works at the age of 11, and since then he never stopped coming back to them. The novels and short stories by Sholokhov “amaze you with how true to life his protagonists are, and how deep he gets under the skin of the period he’s writing about. His descriptions of Nature of our native Don region are lyrical and subtle, as is his understanding of the boundless micro- and macrospace“.

Grigory and his father, Pantelei (Vladimir Begma)

The exhibition is on from November 2 until December 31, 2011.

Author: Julia Shuvalova

Julia Shuvalova is the author of Los Cuadernos de Julia blog. She is an author of several books, a translator, and a Foreign Languages tutor. She lives and works in Moscow, Russia.

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