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01.02.17
Kafka’s neighbours were no better than yours
The allies cannot count on the Russian Army
“But now, in less than three years the lid has been torn off the whited sepulchre of Europe and within we see”
02.02.17
One of the leaders of the Russian opposition: “We need to steer a course for a coup d’état.”
Lenin: “We oldsters won’t live to see the decisive battles of the impending revolution.”
German U-boats threaten Europe-wide hunger
03.02.17
What food is served at the court of the Russian emperor
Is the brother of Nicholas II planning a coup d’état?
Englishmen, Russians and Frenchmen listening to Strauss together in Bern
04.02.17
America breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany
The manufacture of chocolates using milk and cream is prohibited in Petrograd
Bertrand Russell: “The existing capitalist system is doomed”
05.02.17
Romain Rolland: “One of the saddest days of this terrible epoch”
The weather and lack of fuel may leave Russia’s major cities without bread: where is this all leading?
A major entrepreneur confidentially discloses rumours about a plot in the Imperial Guard
06.02.17
Trotsky on New York: “Cubism reigns supreme on the streets, and the philosophy of the dollar reigns supreme in people’s hearts.”
Fitzgerald. “To use an exclamation mark is like laughing at your own joke.”
The daughter of Tsar Nicholas II has her hair washed and curled
07.02.17
The horrors of war: no pineapples for sale in Petrograd
A childhood friend of Tsar Nicholas II warns him that the country is about to hurtle into an abyss
Lenin’s lover has stopped writing to him
08.02.17
Artists and writers are succumbing to a cold and flu
The government is “jumping about as if there were a fire”
Lenin is worried about his party
09.02.17
The Grand Duchess Olga helps perform an operation on a wounded man
Trotsky tries to prevent the USA from joining the war
A famous Russian ballerina continues her tour of America
10.02.17
Receiving the chairman of the Russian parliament, the Emperor is unusually cold and abrupt
“The situation is critical. If railway transport is stopped for two weeks there will be a famine. There is already no flour here.”
A chance to hear the voice of Fyodor Chaliapin, the most famous bass opera singer of the early 20th century
11.02.17
Eleven workers are arrested for disseminating revolutionary propaganda: the sound of the starting gun?
The wife of Rasputin’s murderer develops an addiction to card games
Listen to an archival recording of Fyodor Chaliapin, the most famous bass of the early 20th century
12.02.17
Life in Petrograd in 1917: “Yet another idiotic banquet”
The Grand Prince Aleksey is prescribed morphine to help him sleep
Don't miss an opportunity to watch famous ballerina Anna Pavlova performing "Giselle" in Havana
13.02.17
Psychologist Ivan Pavlov on the Russian slave mentality
The infamous erotic dancer Mata Hari is arrested
The starve makes people leave their houses
14.02.17
Rumours about a palace coup won’t die away
The celebrated Russian dance Nijinsky develops schizophrenia
The housing issue of Franz Kafka
15.02.17
“It’s Russia that has lapsed into such ignominy. And what else will befall her?”
Leo Tolstoy’s widow takes pity on the workers
The food situation in Petersburg grows ever more perilous: the city is threatened by famine due to the poor organisation of deliveries.
16.02.17
Today
Bertrand Russell: “The current powers that be are the very embodiment of evil”
Nijinsky on his relationship with Stravinsky
Freud is dissatisfied with everything
17.02.17
Vladimir Lenin: “What a swine this Trotsky is!”
Nicholas II: “Wrote to Georgie”
A general close to the tsar on the tragic role played by the Empress’ best friend
18.02.17
Fitzgerald on the ladies
A Russian socialist in Norway enjoys Grieg and Munch
The Duma chairman proposes a daring plan to the tsar’s relatives
19.02.17
Pablo Picasso visits Diaghilev in Rome
Lenin continues to berate Trotsky
“The general mood in Petrograd is subdued. People are openly criticising the tsar”
20.02.17
The tsar’s former lover is advised to leave the capital
The chief of Petrograd’s secret police warns of imminent food riots
Tough choices at the French embassy in Petrograd: should the foie gras be washed down with Bordeaux or Burgundy?
21.02.17
Trotsky describes pogroms in New York
Kerensky visits Zinaida Gippius
The Emperor sends his relatives away from Petrograd
22.02.17
Conan Doyle is not impressed by the Russian political system
Trotsky falls out with American socialists after less than a month
A general in the Tsarist army, the future president of Finland, describes the situation in Petrograd
23.02.17
How Russian soldiers differ from their French brothers-in-arms
The incredible account of the last attempt to save the Romanov dynasty
The leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party implores the workers of Petrograd not to strike
24.02.17
Zinaida Gippius doesn't believe in revolution
Alexandra Exter paints "Futurist composition" in Kiev
Blok longs for his wife
25.02.17
Luminaries of the Russian avant-garde perform folk songs
The Lenten festival of Maslenitsa is celebrated in Russia
Stravinsky is commissioned to conduct his Firebird in Rome and Milan
26.02.17
Pasternak is seized with inspiration
Picasso on prostitutes in Rome
Trotsky: “Those most responsible for accelerating our plunge into war were, as always, the pacifists”
27.02.17
Prokofiev tries to spend some time doing nothing, without success
“All Europe has gone off the rails and is careening into a ditch”
Opening of the last session of the last Duma of the Russian Empire
28.02.17
The event everybody has been fearing and anticipating begins
Nikolai II “ I came down with a bad head cold straight away”
Kerensky: “The worst enemy of all is the system of irresponsible despotism”
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