Stanitsa Veshenskaya is the best vacation spot in the Rostov region. What is interesting in the village of veshenskaya

Located on the left bank of the Don, the village of Veshenskaya gained world fame thanks to the novel "The Quiet Don", for which its author Mikhail Sholokhov received the Nobel Prize in Literature. The monument to the main characters Grigory and Aksinya stands on the banks of the river

It seems that the prototype for the work of the sculptor was an illustration for the first edition of the novel (1935), made by a talented artist and sculptor Sergei Korolkov.

The monument to Grigory and Aksinya was made by the sculptor N.V. Mozhaev with the help of E.M. Mozhaeva, V.G. Desyatnichuk, V.I. Voloshin and G. Kholodny. It was created in 1957 as a model, installed in 1983 in Rostov-on-Don on shipyard and only in April 1995 he was transferred to the village of Veshenskaya. The weight of the bronze monument is 12 tons, and overall height- 6.5 meters.
I think that's enough about the monument, I'll move on to historical background taken from information portal villages. It attempts to determine the age of the settlement.
There is conflicting information about the time of the founding of the village of Veshenskaya. Documents of the Don Cossacks almost all burned down in the harsh year of 1643, when the Cossacks surrendered Azov. The remaining archive was destroyed a century later in a huge fire in Starocherkassk. However, already in the era of Peter the Great, the Cossacks said that the town of Veshki was built so long ago that even the old people do not even remember the time of its construction, because "there are no memorials to that." At the beginning of the 18th century, they informed the stolnik Maxim Kologrivy the following: “How long ago they were built, they, the Cossacks, do not mention ...”.
The literature data that have come down to us testify to the following.
As V.N. Korolev in his book “Old Veshki. The Tale of the Cossacks”, the first mention of Veshki goes back to 1571, when Tsar Ivan the Terrible ordered Prince Mikhail Ivanovich Vorotynsky to “know ... all his sovereign Polish services”, and also ordered the new head of the Russian border guards to gather “stanitsa heads” to Moscow , "leaders" and "watchmen". Their meeting left us a "verdict" of February 21, 1571, which indicates the structure border service in Rus', who also mentioned the “head in the field”, which was supposed to be sent from the city of Shatsk and “stand in Vezhki”, above Medvedia and Khopra.
In 1633, a map of Russia was published in Amsterdam for the first time, compiled on the basis of materials from the Moscow Embassy Order by the former Dutch resident Isaac Massa. On the map, he also marked the town of Veshki. historical documents testify that the Moscow embassy issued an order in 1592 to the Lower Don Cossacks to escort the ambassador Grigory Nashchokin "from Azov to the Ryazsky town between town and town." Consequently, Veshenskaya goes back to the end of the 16th century.
In the reference book “Don Monuments”, published in 1964, the authors V.I. Andrianov and A.G. Tereshchenko indicate that Veshenskaya was founded earlier than 1633, because they found the mention of Veshensky town in documents before 1614.
In 1959, the famous Soviet historian A.A. Zimin published a new source relating to the 1620s - early 1630s - "Paintings of Cossack Towns", which already mentions Veshki.
Local historian Tikhon Antonovich Zelenkov claimed that Veshenskaya was 70 years older than the village of Yelanskaya, and that village was founded in 1702. Therefore, 1632 should be considered the year of Veshki's birth.
While local historians continue their research, the official date of the first mention of the Cossack city of Veshki is 1672.
In addition to its venerable age, the village boasts the Church of Michael the Archangel, monuments to Lenin and Gagarin, as well as the fact that during the Civil War, Veshenskaya was the center of the Upper Don uprising against the Bolsheviks. Most other attractions and memorable places inextricably linked with the author Quiet Don. Sholokhov's quote about love for his native village on a stele

The district is named after him, the expositions of the historical and literary museum and the museum-reserve are dedicated to his life and work (over 70,000 items in the funds)
The bronze bust of Sholokhov (sculptor A. Novikov and architect V. Klimov) was installed on May 23, 1981

Through the efforts of the writer, a convenient asphalt road was laid from Millerovo to the one on the opposite bank from Veshenskaya village Bazkovskaya. The permanent bridge over the Don replaced ferry crossing after the death of Sholokhov, in 1985. Every year on the last weekend of May, the literary and folklore festival "Sholokhov Spring" is held.
This is what Quiet Don looks like

It was not possible to look into the museum and carefully get acquainted with the architecture of the city, represented mainly by low-rise buildings of private houses, due to limited time, so the Cossack kurens did not get into the lens. I met a crane well (oh, I often talked about cranes) )))

And a convertible car entwined with greenery

Every person in Russia seems to have heard of her. Even if I didn’t study in the school curriculum, I watched films based on Sholokhov’s novel The Quiet Flows the Don. It is possible that many have no idea where Rostov, Taganrog, Novocherkassk are located. But everyone knows about Veshki.

But my interest in Veshki was not taken away because of the historicity of the village. One morning in 2013 the bell rang mobile phone called a classmate. And she offered to go to the anniversary of a common friend, classmate, Komsomol organizer of the course Valentina K., who lives in the village of Veshenskaya. And so we phoned and went to the event with a large friendly company.

The road was wonderful, there were practically no cars. We drove almost in splendid isolation. The weather was warm, sunny and cloudy at the same time. Eagle could not be removed. My camera didn't take it. I had to steal it from the Internet.

So Stanitsa Veshenskaya. Here is what they write about him on the Internet:

The first mention of the Cossack town of Veshki dates back to 1672. In the Region of the Don Cossacks, it was originally part of the Donetsk District, after the formation of the Verkhnedonsky District, the village becomes its administrative center. During civil war the village was the center of the Upper Don uprising against the Bolsheviks.

The village of Veshenskaya gained world fame thanks to the novel “Quiet Flows the Don” by Mikhail Sholokhov, a resident of the village, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. After the death of the writer in 1984, a State Museum-Reserve M. A. Sholokhova. The bronze bust of Sholokhov was installed on May 23, 1981 on the banks of the Don River (sculptor A. Novikov and architect V. Klimov).

We were greeted by hospitable hosts. Placed and fed.

The mistress of the house is a wonderful woman, a beauty, an athlete, a Komsomol member ... A mathematician by the first education, an architect by the second. He is fond of mountaineering, runs a mountaineering section on a voluntary basis, runs a business for the restoration of Sholokhov objects, brings up children, and runs a household.

The road was not tiring and we refused to rest. Without wasting precious time, we were introduced to some of the sights of the village.

Object first. Cool yar.

It wasn't even dark yet, but it was overcast. A little later cleared up, but at that time it was. The photos are sad. Impressions are completely different. The scope, the bulk of the spill is impressive. The spectacle is so large-scale and impresses the imagination that it can only be compared with such objects as Palace Square in St. Petersburg or Red Square. they say that it was this place in 2005 that Krutoyar was visited by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. I believe. There is something to see.

Second object. Trip to the famous oak. ancient oak

The highlight of this place is the oak, which is over 400 years old. In 2011, the tree was recognized as the oldest in Rostov region and has the status of a "living monument of nature."

Object three. A trip to the birch grove.

The third object of the first day was a birch grove. Who has not been to the birch grove in early spring I advise you to definitely visit. Beauty and deliciousness. We drank juice. Interestingly, it turned out that the juice from different trees is different. There is juice that is sweeter and more concentrated, and there is less sweet. Taste of childhood! I wonder what kind of grove in early autumn, when birches are just about to shed their leaves? Would like to watch. There are many single birches in Rostov, they are very beautiful in early autumn. True, birches can be said to be beautiful at any time of the year.

By the way next pine grove. They say that mushroom pickers come here in spring and autumn. They come on Kamaz trucks and with scythes (they mow the scythe and take them out on Kamaz trucks). And oyster mushroom is not at all a mushroom for picky mushroom pickers.

The owners noticed several unusual objects in the yard. A piece of a farmstead, stylized at the beginning of the last century, a training ground for a dachshund where she digs holes and a home gym.

Second day. Sunny. The sky is clear. In the morning, at the site of the host, they noticed an interesting collection of stones that the owner of the house is collecting:

The owner of the house is a very extraordinary person. The number of his hobbies is incalculable. Hunting, fishing, exploring the region, climbing, restoration. The gym in the house is a family hobby. The love of mountaineering brought these two people together in their youth and held hand in hand through life.

We return to Veshki. Tour of the station.

Sculptural composition "Gregory and Aksinya"

The sculptural composition dedicated to the heroes of the novel by M. A. Sholokhov "The Quiet Don" is located on the banks of the Don River. The sculpture is located in the place where Sholokhov drew inspiration for his novel Quiet Flows the Don.

By the way, this composition is well known to all Rostovites. For a long time she stood on the left bank of the Don opposite Sobornaya Street. But then she disappeared. Many wondered where the monument had gone. And he miraculously decorated the embankment of the village of Veshchenskaya.

Church of St. Michael the Archangel

St. Michael the Archangel parish of the village of Veshenskaya has existed since the middle of the 18th century. In 1786 the main altar of the temple was consecrated.

When traveling in Russia, and in particular in the Rostov region, one cannot help but visit wonderful place of our region - the village of Vyoshenskaya. To visit all the Sholokhov places you will need at least two, and preferably three or four days. Live here for a few days, feel the spirit of the Quiet Don.
The whole complex of the museum-reserve consists of several settlements. (http://www.sholokhov.ru/):
1. Kruzhilinsky memorial and historical complex.
In the farm you can visit family home where the writer was born. Sholokhov's father was from a merchant family in the Ryazan province and served as a clerk. Mother worked as a maid in a noble family.
Museum "Cossack Compound" of the late XIX - early XX centuries. Every September, the museum hosts the literary and ethnographic festival "Kruzhilin Cleaning".
Monument to the Cossacks of the Quiet Don. The bronze model of the monument is stored in the house of Mikhail Alexandrovich in Vyoshenskaya. But he has a different head and a different name - Eaglet.

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2. Karginsky memorial and historical complex.
This is the writer's house, the Sholokhov family lived here since 1910, Mikhail Alexandrovich grew up here, got married, and began writing.
The farmstead of the Cossack Timofey Kargin, which became the prototype of the mill of the merchant Mokhov in the novel Quiet Flows the Don.
Parish school, where young Misha studied for three rubles a year.
3. Actually, the village of Vyoshenskaya, where the writer moved in 1926. There are a lot of objects in Veshki and only here you can spend several days.
This an old house Sholokhov, where the family lived until 1935.
Exhibition Center " people's house»
Church of the Archangel Michael, mid-18th century.

Next to the temple, a monument to Mikhail Sholokhov looks at the Don.

Literary exposition, which is located in former building schools.
Monument to Grigory and Aksinya.

Embankment of the river Don.

An ancient oak-giant, a monument of wildlife.
And, of course, you need to visit the writer's estate.

Sholokhov's estate was built in 1949. After the war, USSR academicians were given money to build dachas near Moscow and Leningrad. The Sholokhov family saw their later life only in Vyoshenskaya. Mikhail Alexandrovich asked for permission to use the allocated money for the construction of a house in the Don village. This museum is unique in that every item in the house is authentic. Even the last cigarette lit by the writer an hour before his death has been preserved.

The house is bright, two floors. On the first floor there is a large entrance hall.

The reception room, in which Sholokhov sorted out the mail, his wife Maria typed manuscripts on a typewriter, there was a secretary.

Living room with a huge table and shelving for gifts.

Dining room for family meals. Mikhail Alexandrovich liked to drink tea from a glass.

Kitchen and servants' quarters. Sholokhov relied on servants paid by the state. Also on the ground floor there is a separate exposition dedicated to the presentation of the Nobel Prize to the writer.

On the second floor - bedrooms and offices.

Hunting room for storing weapons and gear. Sholokhov and his wife were avid fishermen and hunters.

A dressing room containing items from a wedding anniversary trip.

A separate study-bedroom, in which the writer worked at night on his manuscripts, so as not to disturb the household.

You can see not only the house, but also the yard and the garage, in which four personal cars of the writer have been preserved;

sit on Mikhail Alexandrovich's favorite bench overlooking the Don;

to be silent at the graves of the Sholokhov spouses.

In addition to the complex of the museum-reserve of M.A. Sholokhov, these places are interesting for the village of Yelanskaya. In the village you can see the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker built in 1826, as well as the museum "Don Cossacks in the fight against the Bolsheviks." It is no secret that the confrontation of the civil war on the Don was the most acute. Here you can see a different perspective on history. The museum is private, built at the expense of the Cossack Vladimir Melekhov, so before visiting it is worth making an appointment in advance. (http://elan-kazak.org/)
In Veshki you will rest your body and soul. The station has been removed from

Stanitsa Veshenskaya , or Veshki, as they call it locals, not easy cozy corner on the banks of the Don. This locality can provide such a variety of types of recreation that not every popular resort can shine with. Here you will find entertainment to your liking and those who prefer beach holiday and a quiet pastime, and those who like movement and change of scenery, and also those who want to make their journey cognitive and intellectual. In this section of the site, we will tell you why the village combines so many seemingly incompatible things.

rest in stanitsa Veshenskaya will be interesting:

Adherents of ecological tourism.

Stanitsa Veshenskaya is one of the most ecologically clean regions of the European part of Russia. floodplain pine forests the headwaters of the Don, the purest air, beautiful beaches, unique monuments nature of the Rostov region, places untouched by civilization, collection of medicinal herbs, mushroom hunting, horse and boat trips- all this will satisfy the exacting taste of tourists who dream of relaxing away from the hustle and bustle of cities.

Avid fishermen and hunters.

Fishing on the Don is the dream of every real fisherman. In the Don and the lakes of the Sholokhov region, pike and bream, pike perch and hybrid, silver bream and white bream, rudd and fish are excellently caught. There are chub, asp, roach, ide, rudd, blue bream. Here you can always count on a rich catch of Don fish, and landscapes pleasing to the eye. On the Upper Don, during three seasons (except for summer), you can hunt quails, pheasants, partridges, waterfowl, foxes, hares, deer, wild boars, roe deer and other animals.

Lovers of history and antiquity.

The first mention of the village of Veshenskaya dates back to the years of the reign of Ivan the Terrible. In Veshenskaya you can get acquainted with the Cossack traditions and way of life, Don Cossack cuisine, which brings great pleasure to gourmets, unique Don folklore.

Literature lovers.

Stanitsa Veshenskaya is the birthplace of the great writer, Nobel Prize winner Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov. Here you can penetrate the secrets of the creative path, explore the little-known pages of the biography of this brilliant creator, visit the museum-reserve of the writer, wander around the places associated with the fate of the heroes of the "Quiet Don", as well as take part in the annual literary and folklore festival "Sholokhov Spring" which takes place at the end of May.