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p My Leningrad comrades!

p We know how hard it is for you to live, work and fight while surrounded by the enemy. People remember you everywhere—on every front and in the rear. The steel founder in the far-off Urals, looking at a molten stream of metal, thinks about you and works without letup to speed the hour of your liberation; the man on the battlelines, fighting the German invaders in Donbas, strikes them down not only for his own ravaged Ukraine but also for the great sufferings which the enemy has inflicted on you, Leningraders. ... We eagerly await that hour when the ring of the blockade will be broken and the great Soviet Land will press to its bosom the heroic sons and daughters of Leningrad—a city bathed in eternal glory.

1942

65 Sons of the Quiet Don At a readers’ conference attended by factory workers Mikhail Sholokhov in 1936 Novocherkassk. The deputy and his electors At the front. Writers Yevgeny Petrov, Mikhail Sholokhov and Alexander Fadeyev look at instruments removed from a blasted German tank In the 1930s Mikhail Sholokhov with a gun crew General-Lieutenant Konev speaks to Mikhail Sholokhov and Alexander Fadeyev 1944  They fought for their country A view of Veshenskaya Sholokhov at an infantry command post A street in Veshenskaya Veshenskaya. The road leading down to the bridge The Don as seen from the writer’s house Sholokhov and his wife Maria Petrovna at breakfast The writer at work A family picture Fishing The Sholokhovs in their garden Flying over the Don steppe On location, during the shooting of the film The Fate of a Man Going duck-shooting Among today’s Davidovs (at the Kirov Plant in Leningrad)