Carl Mannerheim

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Age: 50

Title: Baron

Rank: Major-general

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Nicholas II

Alexandra Feodorovna

Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich

Mikhail Alekseyev

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

Carl Mannerheim

Helsinki, Finland

26.12.17

I was interested to see what the authorities that had to save the Russian state could do, so having spent a week in Helsinki, I returned to Petrograd. There wasn't a hint of resistance. See more

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Carl Mannerheim

Helsinki, Finland

20.12.17

When I arrived in Helsinki, the weather was gloomy and rainy...

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Carl Mannerheim

Petrograd, Russian Republic

16.12.17

I spent a week in Petrograd and in that time saw many of my old friends. It was perfectly obvious that they were all in a terribly depressed state. Fear ruled over people, and they did not display the slightest hint of struggle against the new regime.

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Carl Mannerheim

Petrograd, Russian Republic

12.12.17

At luncheon in the New Club, which was founded by high-ranking members of the Hunting Society, I found myself sitting between two grand dukes. News filtered through that the Bolsheviks had searched the Hunting Society’s premises and arrested several of its members, among them my friend Arseniy Karageorgievich, a cavalry officer and brother of the King of Serbia. See more

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Carl Mannerheim

Petrograd, Russian Republic

09.12.17

In six days, we reached Petrograd.

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Carl Mannerheim

hotel "London", Odessa, Russian Republic

21.09.17

I received a telegram from Lieutenant-General Nikolai Dukhonin. From September 22, I will be transferred to the reserve because "I didn’t adapt to the current conditions." I have the same opinion about myself and would just like to add that for six months I did not meet the requirements of the time. In other words, from the very first day of what they want to call the democratization of the army, but in fact what should be called its annihilation. I won’t hide it. I’m extremely pleased that this is how I will leave the game, and I don’t care what’s the reason and on whose initiative I was transferred to the reserve. See more

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Carl Mannerheim

Romanian front

24.06.17

One of my divisions was due to replace another; just when the time came for the units to advance to the front line, a divisional commander arrived. I asked the general whether he trusted his troops, but my misgivings seemed to offend him. I advised the commander that I’d dispatched several cannon to the site where his units were supposed to be located, just in case. Half an hour later, the general reported that the troops were refusing to go into the trenches. But as soon as the first shells exploded in the vicinity of the camp, everything fell into place, and the general’s honour was saved.

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Carl Mannerheim

13.03.17

Я сидел в коридоре у телефона и безуспешно пытался связаться со своим адъютантом. На мне был халат С., из-под которого выглядывали сапоги со следами шпор. Неожиданно на лестнице послышались громкие голоса и раздалось бряцание оружия. О ступени стукнули приклады винтовок, кто-то остановился около входа в квартиру и позвонил в дверь. Хозяин открыл, а я продолжил разговор по телефону. Вошел патруль. Его возглавлял некто в гражданской одежде. Этот человек сразу же заявил, что в квартире прячется генерал. See more

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Carl Mannerheim

Petrograd, Russian Empire

12.03.17

An elderly, venerable porter put his head round the door. Utterly shell-shocked, the old man stammered that the revolution had begun: the insurgents were on their way to arrest officers, he said, and they very keen to know the number of my room. I had to hurry. Already in my uniform and boots, I threw over my shoulders an insignia-free winter overcoat, ripped off my spurs and put on a hat worn by civilians and military men alike.

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Carl Mannerheim

Petrograd, Russian Empire

22.02.17

Of course it was impossible to keep track of the situation within the country while fighting on the front. Now, having spent a few days in the capital, I have heard of the most curious happenings. The State Duma, which was called up once again in November 1916, has been reverberating with revolutionary speeches. See more

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Carl Mannerheim

Petrograd, Russian Empire

19.02.17

The general mood in Petrograd is subdued. People are openly criticising the tsar. Due to heavy snowstorms, tens of thousands of freight cars are stuck on the tracks, with the bread and fuel situation in the capital and other major cities becoming particularly severe as a result.

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Carl Mannerheim

Tsaritsyn, Russian Empire

18.02.17

I travelled to Tsarskoye Selo, having learned that the Emperor was currently in residence there. As a member of His Majesty’s retinue, I could expect to be granted an audience. Only two people were scheduled to be received by the tsar that day, and an audience was indeed promptly granted. Normally, the Emperor was all attention at debriefings, and I had assumed that an update about the situation on the Romanian front would spark his interest. It appeared to me, however, that, in this particular moment, his thoughts were preoccupied with completely different problems.

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Age: 50

Title: Baron Rank: Major-general

Friends

Nicholas II

Maria Feodorovna

Alexandra Feodorovna

Vasily Gurko

Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich

Aleksei Brusilov

Mikhail Alekseyev

Lavr Kornilov