Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1965 for And Quiet Flows The Don. TLS in Russian, one page, 8 x 11.5, Veshenskaya, October 2, 1945. Untranslated. A request from Sholokhov that his cousin, Major of the Red Army V.A. Sholokhov, who had been sent for military service in Stalingrad, be transferred to Rostov for health reasons. In fine condition, with scattered creasing a couple of areas of trivial soiling, vertical fold through a letter of the signature. RRAuction COA.