Alexander Liverovsky

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Age: 50

Job: Minister of Transport of the Provisional Government

Non-fiction

Project 1917 is a series of events that took place a hundred years ago as described by those involved. It is composed only of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers and other documents

Alexander Liverovsky

08.11.17

Rutenberg asked if anyone had a gun. No one did. I gave him my small nickel Browning.

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Alexander Liverovsky

Peter and Paul fortress, Petrograd, Russian Republic

08.11.17

We are in the fortress.

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Alexander Liverovsky

Peter and Paul fortress, Petrograd, Russian Republic

08.11.17

I've been placed in the cell № 54.

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Alexander Liverovsky

Winter Palace, Petrograd, Russian Republic

07.11.17

Kerensky wasn't there. I asked where he was, and Konovalov replied that Kerensky had left at 11 a.m. in a car and headed towards the troops who were making their way to Petrograd to support the Provisional Government.

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Alexander Liverovsky

Winter Palace, Petrograd, Russian Republic

07.11.17

The first shots were heard near the Winter Palace. From the windows that looked out onto the Admiralty, we could see sailors, soldiers and Red Guards running. The cadets who were guarding the bridge did not move from their posts. It was unclear who was shooting, at what, and why. It became evident that there were no supplies for the cadets. Steps are being taken.

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Alexander Liverovsky

07.11.17

The meeting of the government is resumed for a short while. The main question under discussion is whether to stay or leave. It's been decided to stay.

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Alexander Liverovsky

07.11.17

It's been unaninously decided not to answer the ultimatum and to stay in the Winter Palace.

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Alexander Liverovsky

Winter Palace, Petrograd, Russian Republic

07.11.17

We had tea.

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Alexander Liverovsky

07.11.17

In the lower gallery I encountered officer cadets with Red Guardsmen who’d been captured in the courtyard. They’d been searched and their revolvers and hand grenades were confiscated along with their rifles.

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Alexander Liverovsky

07.11.17

There are a lot of cadets in the gallery, some, with their possessions, are prepared to leave, they are in a depressed mood. In my absence, the ministers received most of the 3-inch shrapnel, which hit the Alexandrovksy Hall of the Winter Palace from the square, having blasted through the wall and damaged the portrait of Peter the Great.

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Alexander Liverovsky

Winter Palace, Petrograd, Russian Republic

07.11.17

There was a terrible crash followed by shots in the next room. It transpired that some infiltrating sailors had hurled a bomb from the upper gallery in the corridor. A few minutes later, a cadet with a head wound was brought in to us, while another one walked in on his own two feet. Kishkin dressed their wounds. Bernatsky lent his handkerchief for a bandage. We then extinguished the fire burning in the corridor as a result of the explosion.

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Age: 50

Job: Minister of Transport of the Provisional Government