The main subject of And Quiet Flows the Don are the lives of simple but extraordinary people and a great and tragic love story that unfolds against a backdrop of revolution, world and civil wars and social upheaval.

 

 

On a Tatar farm lives the large and happy Melekhov family. Grigory Melekhov becomes interested in his neighbor Aksinya, the wife of Stepan Astakhov. In an effort to bring their son to his senses, his parents have him marry another almost by force. Grigory very soon realizes that he can’t live with his wife and leaves home, breaking his family ties. And not long thereafter Grigory joins the army. The nascent World War and the tragic events that follow it radically change the lives of every character in And Quiet Flows the Don without exception.

 

 

The centuries-old way of life of Russian Cossacks is destroyed, seemingly strong family bonds are broken and ideological differences put close relatives on different sides of the barricades…

 

 

The lyrical and epic foundations of the production are closely intertwined. Grigory Melekhov’s personal tragedy correlates with the discordant world order, in which the new ways are incompatible with his morals. Melekhov’s journey is one of acquisition and loss, of mistakes and defeats, and it is one that the Russian people as a whole underwent in the beginning of the last century.

 

 

PRODUCTION TEAM
Director – Grigory Kozlov
Production and Costume Designer – Mikhail Barkhin
Light – Alexandr Ryazantsev, Ekaterina Marina
Sound – Marina Vasenina, Ekaterina Nikolaeva
Video – Alexandr Malyshev, Fyodor Sokolov
Musical Director – Vyacheslav Shulin
Stage Manager – Vera Lachinova