Kruzhilinsky memorial historical complex
"Wild grass grows up to a horse's torso, where little bustards built their nests. In wintertime packs of wolves, multiplied in coomby forests, roamed the steppes and foxes feasted, following hares along newly-fallen snow and searching for partridges in snowdrifts. In spring new grass was striking its way through the faded one. In the eagl of April - at the beginning of May it covered the steppe with emerald carpet where one could distinguish bright red azure colour of youth and grey feather-grass, reminding of the curls of an old man."
In his brief biography M.A.Sholokhov wrote: "I was born in 1905 in Krujilin village of Veshenskaya stanitsa in the Upper Don region..."
At the beginning of the XX century there were 200 houses in Krujilin, a church was built (1872) and also maidan (square) and a parish school. The centre of the village received the name "stanichka"(small stanitsa)... Here mostly houses, merchants' shops and stores (Oboimakov, Eletskov, and Hrennikov) and also residences of rich Cossacks were found.
The Sholokhovs' country estate consisting of a house and several domestic buildings was adjoining"stanichka" from the South. This house was built in the seventies of the XIX century by a deacon of a local church. A.M. Sholokhov - the would-be father of the writer bought it in 1898, where the family stayed till 1910. Here in 1905 the Misha Scholokhov was born. In 1910 in accordance with the Sholokhovs' departure to Kargin the house was sold to a merchant Kseniya Petrovna Shutovaya. The destroyed during the war Sholokhovs' house was taken to a village on the left bank of the Chyornaya river. But in 1967 it was brought back to its original place and in 1980 the museum was opened there.
In 1987-1988 the reconstruction (according to the original historical standards) was held, the planning and the interior of the Sholokhovs' house were changed and all the domestic buildings in the yard were restored: barn for keeping grain, stables, shop and family "banya" (sauna). The orchard with the trees and bushes which decorated the yard in M.A. Sholokhov's childhood was also restored.
On the basis of the existing yard buildings the restoration work of a Cossack yard of the end XIX-beginning XX c. is being done. The traditional agriculture of that period will also be reconstructed, cattle for ploughing and other domestic animals were bought, village trade was orginized.
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