What is the name of this Russian novel? Who was the author?

What is the name of this Russian novel? Who was the author?
The scene in a Russian novel is summarized as follows:
A young noble riding a sleigh was trapped in a small relay station in Siberia by a snowstorm. For more than ten days, his and his neighbor's rooms had been quietly cleaned and tidied by a mute and deaf girl.
When the weather cleared up, the travelers smiled and happily bid farewell to the " isolated island ". The young noble who had decided to leave the next day was awakened by the shaking of the night. The deaf-mute cleaning lady, who had quietly entered his room, gave herself to him after kissing him passionately…
Several years later, he, who had already become a master, searched for that unknown courier station without stopping. When he finally found the place where he had a one-night stand, he found out that in the summer of the second year after he left, a deaf-mute female cleaner died of dystocia due to excessive blood loss. She gave birth to a baby boy who was less than a month old. He grew up to be an idiot.
The kind-hearted people and busybodies within a hundred miles of the square garden tried their best, but they could not guess who the orphan's father was…
What is the title of this novel? Who was the author?

Answer 1

The Russian novel was called The Quiet Don by Alexander Heracles.