And Quiet Flows the Don Author:Mikhail Sholokhov Mikhail Sholokhov's The Don Flows Home to the Sea is a turbulent novel of the Don Cossacks at war, an unforgettable sage of loyalties divided with brother fighting brother, of homes pillaged, of stolen moments of passionate loving. A dynamic masterpiece which covers the troubled years between 1918 and 1921, this great work vividly depicts the de... more »ath throes of the old Russian order and the birth of the new Soviet state.« less