Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov was a Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for writing about life and fate of Don Cossacks during the Russian Revolution, the
Sholokhov in 1960
Mikhail Sholokhov and his wife, 1924
Sholokhov in the late 1930s
Writers Mikhail Sholokhov (in the drivers seat) and Alexander Fadeyev (in the seat of the turret gunner). Eastern Front, September 1941
Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev was a Soviet writer, one of the co-founders of the Union of Soviet Writers and its chairman from 1946 to 1954.
Fadeyev in 1952. Photograph by Roger [de] and Renate Rössing
Fadeyev on a 2026 stamp of Russia.