His paternal grandfather Sergey Glikman was born in Chisināu. He has been called one of the most authoritative film and theater critics of Russia. In 1991 Sholokhov and Sergey Kuryokhin broadcast the influential televised hoax Lenin was a mushroom. Since 1991 and 1992 he worked in the management School at Harvard University as a visiting researcher. Member of the jury ofnume- rous film festivals. Author and producer of 10 documentaries. He began his career on Leningrad television as editor of the cinema department in 1987. He became popular in the late 1980s as one of the authors and hosts ofthe pub- licistic program "The Fifth Wheel". Since 1991, he has released his own program "Quiet House", the first release of which went down in history as "Lenin-a mush- room". In 1991-1992, he worked at the Harvard University School of Management as a visiting fellow. In 1997 he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company "Petersburg - Channel Five", where he worked until 1998, when the TV company, having ceded the federal frequency to the newly formed TV channel "Culture", again became regional. Since 1992, the program "Quiet House" aired on the channel "Russia", and from 1998 to 2017 - on "Channel One"; from about the early to mid-2000s, this program only covered luxury film festivals (Berlin, Cannes, Venice).