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01.03.17
The Empress is just about holding it together – but only thanks to barbiturates
Mata Hari is questioned by the French authorities
The Russian army is sent pornographic images from France
02.03.17
General Denikin complains that he cannot express himself explicitly in letters to his bride on account of censorship
Admire "A girl in yellow dress" by Modigliani
Freud is in a bad mood
03.03.17
Today
The strike at the Putilov plant
“The French couldn’t care less what’s going on inside the country – provided Russia’s fighting well”
Modigliani finishes a new painting
04.03.17
A tender letter to the wife of the future orchestrator of the Red Terror
One of the Empress’s ladies-in-waiting: “Not far from the Winter Palace, I personally saw a slogan that read ‘Down with the Tsar!’”
Choreographer Léonide Massine talks about his work with Picasso and Cocteau
05.03.17
The Tsar’s brother takes a liking to a balalaika player
The Emperor is unhappy at the fact that the British ambassador is interfering in domestic politics
One of the Empress’s ladies-in-waiting: “We all seem out of sorts. What fun it would be to have some champagne!”
06.03.17
Zweig’s thoughts on Russian literature
How the three-hundred-year anniversary of the Romanov dynasty was celebrated
“It seemed to me that his Majesty has lost weight and is looking older.”
07.03.17
“A small gold fir tree, with branches shimmering with little diamonds”: Russia’s first ballerina is living a life of luxury.
“Poor Russia. For goodness sake, come to your senses!”
The Empress writes to Nicholas II: “Be strong, show them a firm hand. That is what the Russians need.”
08.03.17
Something is beginning, something bad!
The affectionate correspondence of the Tsar and Tsaritsa
Prokofiev describes the beginning of demonstrations in Petrograd
09.03.17
A Russian revolutionary freezes in Switzerland
The Petrograd city governor describes the situation in the city
The Grand Duchess Anastasia cares for her sick sisters and writes to her father
Маскарад
10.03.17
The Empress: “It is a campaign of hooliganism. Little boys and girls running about and shouting.”
Akhmatova is unable to find a horse-cab thanks to the demonstrators
“There are disturbances in the city. The troops refuse to shoot at the people.”
11.03.17
"The first red banner has appeared, a vile rag"
Guardsmen are shooting their commanders, and not the striking workers
"The palace is deadly quiet"
12.03.17
It has begun!
“Today is one of Russia’s greatest and most joyous days”
“The world’s gone mad and is dying before our very eyes”
13.03.17
Kerensky: “We are gathered here to swear that Russia will be free”
The adventures of a tsarist general in revolutionary Petrograd
Zinaida Gippius prays for Russia
14.03.17
Ivan Pavlov: “I don’t believe that the revolution can serve as a justification for tardiness!”
The Emperor can't reach Tsarskoye Selo
Maxim Gorky: “A lot of blood will be spilt – more than has ever been spilt before”
15.03.17
The Russian Empire is no more
Nicholas II: “All around is betrayal, cowardice and deceit!”
Kerensky: “A free Russia has been born, and no one will succeed in prising this freedom from the people’s hands”
16.03.17
“Our great-grandchildren will speak of these days as of the beginning of a new era in the history of humanity”
The Empress learns of her husband’s abdication
Nicholas II’s brother refuses the throne
17.03.17
Lenin hatches a crazy plan to reach Russia in the guise of a deaf-mute Swede
The new government convenes beneath the portraits of former tsarist ministers
Alexandra Feodorovna: “There’s a revolution in Germany! Masonic interference is everywhere apparent”
18.03.17
Stravinsky composes a post-tsarist national anthem
“The Russian Revolution cannot fail to affect the whole of Europe”
Nicholas Romanov bids farewell to his officers
19.03.17
20.03.17
The ex-minister of defence is in jail
This is what revolutionary Petrograd looks like
Kerensky is under attack from the left
21.03.17
Stalin is on his way to Petrograd!
“You know, Aleksei Nikolaevich, your father no longer wants to be the Emperor”
The Empress burns the letters
22.03.17
Prokofiev on a new national anthem
Pasternak meets Mayakovsky
The US wanted to be the first state to admit the new Russian government
23.03.17
The British ambassador is asking for Romanovs to be allowed to leave for England
What does the tsar do after the abdication
"An idol can be created out of democracy, out socialism, out of the people themselves"
24.03.17
The Tsar is forbidden from travelling to England
Lenin opposes an alliance with the Mensheviks
Gorky: “We oughtn’t to pin our hopes on the troops – they’re ignorant Russian muzhiks togged out in greatcoats”
25.03.17
Grand Duke Michael: "A disgusting red flag fluttered atop the palace tower"
The death penalty has been abolished in Russia
“A procession of lemon-blue flags, one hundred-thousand strong”: a demonstration by Ukrainians in Petrograd
26.03.17
Admiral Kolchak: "Submarines and aeroplanes tarnish the poetry of war"
The head of the Provisional Government: "Our newborn freedom faces great, perhaps severe, trials”
Lenin travels to Scandinavia!
27.03.17
“The Yellow Press has launched an invective-filled campaign to discredit the former Tsar”
Trotsky refuses to complain to Beel-Zebub about the devil
Thomas Mann on Dostoevsky
28.03.17
The Swedish police search for a letter from Lenin hidden in a corset
The former Empress fears for her life at the hands of soldiers
“We demand an independent Ukraine”
29.03.17
Their Highnesses still don’t realise that they were the exact reasons for the collapse
Kerensky: “I will do everything to not let this slide into Jacobinian terror”
Gorky: “We won’t soon get over this chaos, this fever of passions and illusions”
30.03.17
Rasputin’s killer is allowed out of exile
Bunin arrives in revolutionary Petrograd
Expatriate Russian socialists in Switzerland negotiate with Berlin
31.03.17
Thomas Mann: “I have never felt any anger towards Russia and Russian character.”
Dzerzhinsky has been released from prison and is thinking what to do next
Lenin’s agent has arrived to Petrograd
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