Vyoshenskaya is Sholokhov, Sholokhov and once more Sholokhov. One of the oldest Don stanitsas remembers and loves the famous Russian writer. Monuments and a whole festival are dedicated to him here. Local residents try to preserve Cossack traditions, honor the surrounding nature and sing majestic songs to the glory of their ancestors.
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How to get there
By plane you need to get to Rostov, and from the main city of the region there is a direct road to Veshenskaya. On the way, it will take about 8 hours.
By train, it is best to get to Millerovo station, from where buses go to the village. On the way - 3 hours. If you want to get home Sholokhov faster, then take a taxi. The driver for a couple of thousand and one and a half hours will drive to the destination.
On a private car, you need to go on the M4 highway straight to the intersection: if you go straight, then you'll get to Rostov, to the right - to Millerovo, and to the left - to Veshenskaya, which will be through 140 kilometers
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Transport
There are about 9 thousand people living in Veshenskaya. So the best public transport here is minibuses or buses that run along the highway from Moscow to Rostov. Between this stanitsa and Bazkovskaya on the opposite bank of the Don, a bridge has been erected, which replaced the ferry crossing.
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Cuisine and restaurants
There are two restaurants in Vyoshenskaya - "Khutorok" and "Pogrebok". These are such culinary islands of the Cossack cuisine where folklore music is brought by such dishes as you are unlikely to try anywhere else.
For example, "Pogrebok" is decorated in the style of a kuren with elements of the Cossack way of life. It is hidden in a quiet street under a vineyard. Servings are huge, almost for two. Here you can order Don soup, okroshka, dumplings, rich borscht and mushrooms.
Stores
Veshenskaya is a storehouse of souvenirs. Here they know how to sell something like that in memory of the Cossack color. For example, magnets, films about the Don region and the village, photo posters, graphics, paintings, ceramics and CDs with Cossack songs.
In the souvenir shop is to buy, first of all, the books of Mikhail Sholokhov, beautiful wooden and earthenware, products from the vine. For brutal men Cossack clothes are sold: burki, papakhi, gymnasts, wide trousers with stripes, checkers, mace, whips and accordion. The snack should be taken with a samovar.
Veshenskaya hotels
There are five hotels in Vyoshenskaya. Here you can rent a cozy room for a reasonable fee. Hotels offer healthy homemade food, cooked, as the owners say, only from organic products. In principle, there is no reason to distrust them.
In addition, the hotels offer guests various excursions. For example, you can go to the forest for mushrooms, fish on the Don, steam in the bath, make horse riding.
And in Veshenskaya there is the same spa sanatorium. Here, the diseases of the musculoskeletal system, the peripheral nervous system and diabetes mellitus are treated. On the territory of the sanatorium there is a mineral spring - its waters are used for drinking, baths and procedures in the pool. The resort is open all year round.
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- To go hunting - on the Upper Don, you can hunt quail, partridges, pheasants, wild boar, elk, deer, roe deer, fallow deer, hare, fox and raccoon dog all year round except for summer.
- See the blossom of tulips - they cover the entire steppe with a colorful carpet. This is a beautiful sight, which, in principle, is typical for the South of Russia.
- Try to find a treasure under the oak tree - there are many legends about the oaks of the oaks. For example, local residents believe that this tree was planted by the Tatar khan, so as not to forget where he hid the treasure. Cossacks many times came here in search of treasure, but to no avail. According to legend, the treasure is buried 500 meters from the oak tree. That's just no one knows which way to go.
- Try local fruits and vegetables - and not only to try, but also to take with them. In Veshenskaya melons, watermelons, grapes are perfectly maturing, and in the forests mushrooms - as for selection.
Entertainment, excursions and sights of Veshenskaya
The main sights of the village are connected with the life and work of Mikhail Sholokhov, as well as with the Cossacks
Festival "Sholokhov Spring"
This festival is held in the village every spring. It is dedicated to the birthday of writer Mikhail Sholokhov. The festival is neither more nor less than international.
About 100 thousand people come to Vyoshenskaya - they are admirers of Sholokhov and the culture of the Don Cossacks. The village accepts famous actors, writers and public figures. Once Vladimir Putin came here.
The festival has its own traditions. He starts a children's holiday, poets and writers meet in the library, and in the evening a concert of amateur groups begins. The morning of the next day charges a theatrical pacing - along the streets of the village are moving folklore collectives that wake up the inhabitants with songs and dances. The fair is open in the square, the Cossack raznosols and gorilka are sold in kurens.
Finally, on the last day there are big races. They take part horsemen from Russia and abroad. Cossacks compete in jiggeting and felling of the vines
Sholokhov Museum-Reserve
Everything in this museum that is related to the life and work of the writer is manuscripts, letters, personal belongings, houses where he lived and much more. The collection of museum items numbers more than 50 thousand units. Every year the collection is replenished.
The museum-reserve includes several zones that most fully reflect the life of Sholokhov - the village of Vyoshenskaya, the Kruzhilinsky village, the Karginskaya village, the Elanskaya village, the Lebyazhy farm, the Pleshaki and the Shchebunyaevsky, the Ostrovnoye, and the oak grove
"Grigory and Aksinya"
The sculpture is dedicated to two heroes of Sholokhov's world-famous novel "Quiet Flows the Don". It was created in the mid-80s of the last century, and first it was in Rostov, and after that it was transported to Veshenskaya.
The author himself stated the sketches of the compositions. He advised to replace the buckets that Aksinya holds, and also recommended that Gregory be transplanted from the Arabian horse to the donchak horse.
Monument to the Don Cossacks
This monument stands on a piled-up hill near the Kruzhilinsky farm. It was established on the 89th anniversary of the birth of Mikhail Sholokhov
Monumental Cossack on horseback rises 8 meters. Next to it is a white stone with the inscription "Monument to the Cossacks of the Don" and a cross. Around is the steppe.