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They Fought for Their Country
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Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (Russian: Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович Шо́лохов) (May 24 [O.S. May 11] 1905 – February 21, 1984) was a Soviet/Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Sholokhov was born in the Rostov-on-Don region of Russia, in the "land of the Cossacks" - the...
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