Summary Audiobook - "And Quiet Flows the Don" By Mikhail Sholokhov — Transcript

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1. 0:00the mindset shift presents audiobook
2. 0:03summary and quiet flows the Dom by
3. 0:06Mikhail shalakov the plot begins with
4. 0:09the world war in a small Village By The
5. 0:11River Dawn Gregory melakoff lives there
6. 0:14with his family that consists of his
7. 0:17parents sister and a married brother
8. 0:20Gregory is in a love affair with a
9. 0:22married woman called axinia her husband
10. 0:25Stefan is in the arms the traditional
11. 0:28people didn't approve of their
12. 0:29relationship and because of that
13. 0:31Gregory's father pantale arranges his
14. 0:34son to be married to Natalya
15. 0:37she came from a rich family Gregory
16. 0:40married her but he wasn't happy she was
17. 0:43a good and loyal wife but a bit cold
18. 0:45after a few years Grigori went back to
19. 0:48axinia the first communist supporters
20. 0:51started to appear in the village and
21. 0:54they were fighting for equality Grigori
22. 0:57ran away with aksinia and they worked on
23. 0:59a field of a retired military officer in
24. 1:02the meantime natala gave birth to
25. 1:04Gregory's child and demanded him to
26. 1:07leave aksinia and take care of them
27. 1:09Grigori refused to do it so Natalia
28. 1:12tried to kill herself the war started
29. 1:15and Gregory was mobilized into the army
30. 1:18in the beginning he felt ill from The
31. 1:20Killing and the blood but soon he got
32. 1:22through
33. 1:23he was even wounded several times and
34. 1:26because of his great courage he was
35. 1:29honored soon after his daughter Tanya
36. 1:31died from diphtheria axinia was alone
37. 1:34and desperate and in that condition the
38. 1:36retired officer's son seduced when
39. 1:39Grigori found out about it he ended his
40. 1:42relationship with oxenia after that
41. 1:44Grigori confronted the officer's son and
42. 1:47decided to go back to the Village he
43. 1:49also came back to Natalya the war was
44. 1:53raging on and the military was
45. 1:55dissatisfied all of the mentioned became
46. 1:57a good territory for the Revolutionary
47. 2:00propaganda to be spread across Russia
48. 2:02one Bolshevik told that the war against
49. 2:05the Germans will turn into a civil war
50. 2:08in the meantime Natalya gave birth to a
51. 2:11boy and a girl
52. 2:13the Army got more and more tired and
53. 2:16when everyone believed that the war is
54. 2:18over a Civil War started the October
55. 2:21Revolution began and Gregory joined the
56. 2:23Bolsheviks his honesty had a lot to do
57. 2:26with it because he wanted to fight off
58. 2:28the inequality and Injustice even though
59. 2:31he believed in his ideals they fell
60. 2:33apart soon Gregory was struck by the
61. 2:37murder of two officers from the opposite
62. 2:39side they were killed by the leader of
63. 2:42the Revolutionary movement when he came
64. 2:44back home he decided to fight against
65. 2:46the Bolsheviks but he wasn't happy
66. 2:49either because murders were still going
67. 2:51on in each sides of the Civil War
68. 2:54in the meantime the officer's son got
69. 2:56married and abandoned axinea she came
70. 2:59back to her husband Stefan who was
71. 3:01liberated from captivity Natalia was
72. 3:04pregnant again and the child was
73. 3:06Gregory's but she didn't want to be
74. 3:08pregnant she tried to violently end the
75. 3:11pregnancy and she ended up dead Gregory
76. 3:14was demobilized and came back home there
77. 3:17he met his son-in-law who was leading
78. 3:19the Bolshevik Revolution in his village
79. 3:22Gregory joined a gang but soon he
80. 3:25abandoned it and ran away with xinia
81. 3:27they were ambushed and axinia was killed
82. 3:31Gregory was broken down and while he was
83. 3:34burying her body he realized how sad and
84. 3:37unfair Lifey the story brings a historic
85. 3:41event a revolution and a passionate love
86. 3:43affair between Gregory and axinea the
87. 3:47author tried to show us a sad faith in
88. 3:49times of War this novel tells us about
89. 3:53history but in the same time it takes on
90. 3:56a journey through a life of an ordinary
91. 3:58man thank you for joining me on this
92. 4:01audio journey through and quiet flows
93. 4:03the dome by Mikhail sholikov
94. 4:06I hope this summary has given you a
95. 4:09glimpse into the Epic story of the Don
96. 4:11Cossacks and their struggles during the
97. 4:14turbulent times of the Russian
98. 4:16Revolution and Civil War the novel
99. 4:19explores themes of Love loyalty betrayal
100. 4:23and the human cost of war and provides a
101. 4:26powerful portrayal of the harsh
102. 4:28realities of life in Cossack Villages
103. 4:31along the Don River as always on the
104. 4:34mindset shift we believe that reading
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108. 4:44you haven't already I highly recommend
109. 4:46picking up a copy of and quiet flows the
110. 4:49down and experiencing the full story for
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