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Diamond Named After Nobel Prize Winner.
A 77.62 –carat diamond has been named after Mikhail Sholokhov, a well known Soviet writer and Nobel Prize winner. The announcement was made at the Russian Literature Awards Ceremony in Moscow on July 1, reported the Soviet TASS news agency.
The Sholokhov diamond has been added to Russia’s collection of over 400 Yakutian diamonds named after famed writers, scientists, historical events and finders of diamond deposits. Other large diamonds in Russia have been named after, Marshal Zhukov (79.7 carats), Sergei Prokofyv (79.6 carats), Mikhail Bulgakov (64.2 carats), Arkady Gaidar (50.4 carats) and Yevgeny Leonov (73.9 carats). One of the world’s largest diamonds is named after writer and poet Alexander Pushkin (320.6 carats).
Sholokhov lived from 1905-1984. In 1922 he became a journalist and published a number of short stories in newspapers. He made his literary debut in 1926 with a volume of stories called Donskie rasskazy (Tales from the Don), 1926, about the Cossacks of his native region. In 1926, he began writing Tikhi Don (And Quiet Flows the Don) which became the most read work in Soviet fiction. In 1939, he became a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and later vice president of the Association of Soviet Writers.
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