Karghinsky memorial historical complex

"Below, on the other side of Chir, was Karginskaya and behind it the steppe, making a soft carpet and somewhere cut across by gullies, made its way to the South for miles and miles away". (M. Sholokhov "Still Don"). In 1910 the Sholokhovs moved to Karginskaya village due to the fackihat the father was hired by the merchant Ozerov and later was involved in Lyovochkin trade business. There is an unremarkable clean whitewashed "kuren" (Don house) surrounded with waffle fencing in the stanitsa's street. One could see tiny windows, clay walls, a roof of reed, wooden porch. The inner arrangement which faced Sholokhov in the middle of 1920 is reconstructed.

Here in the light of a kerosene lamp Misha read his first books, listened to the stories about Persia and Albania of a wise Cossack F.D. Lihovidov, who was born in Karginskaya.

In 1911 a local teacher Timofey Timofeevich Mrihin began giving lessons to Misha. At the age of 6 Misha wrote his first letters with his assistance, then he studied in a parish school where from his father took him to Moscow grammar school and later to Boguchar grammar school.

Due to the civil war M. Sholokhov in 1919 He had to leave the grammar school and enroll to Karginskaya revkom, his first works including feuilleton "Trial" in "Younosheskaya Pravda". On the pages of main editions appeared his "Shepherd", "Shibalkovo seed", "Nakhalyonok", "Alyoshka's Heart".

In Kargin the idea of the would-be famous novel "Still Don" came into being. Even in his teens M.Sholokhov watched the life Cossacks and aliens that formed a basis for vivid and bright description of folk life in the novel.
M.Sholokhov called this village in "Still Don" "the most beautiful in the Upper Don".

The building of a functioning bakery for producing souvenir pastry in accordance with reconstructed mill complex is planned. The theater building of "Ideal" will be used for staging performances and concerts.