Mikhail Bogoslovskiy

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Age: 50

Occupation: historian Interests: reforms of Peter the Great, everyday life of the Russian nobility

Job: Moscow university professor in ordinary

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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

Mikhail Bogoslovskiy

Moscow, Russian Republic

09.11.17

There are many different rumours going round. They say that the a cruiser, the Aurora, fired a thousand shells into the Winter Palace, destroying it completely and burying its defenders, an entire battalion of women soldiers. My colleagues, oblivious to the events, continue to bury their heads in the Novgorod Registers. See more

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Mikhail Bogoslovskiy

Moscow, Russian Republic

19.10.17

Suddenly it’s grown very cold. Temperature has dropped below 0°. We are losing the Baltic sea and returning to the borders the way they were during the time of Ivan the Terrible.

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Mikhail Bogoslovskiy

Moscow, Russian Republic

11.10.17

Newspapers are publishing a letter from an artillery brigade stationed in Moscow. The letter reports some cases of insults or even beatings of officers by soldiers; and officers declare that, in such circumstances, they believe their service to be pointless and ask the Ministry of the Military to strip them of their rank: they would be more useful that way. See more

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Mikhail Bogoslovskiy

Moscow, Russian Republic

29.09.17

Saturday. An upsiring in Finland. The dissolved Seim assembled illegally and the tallyman ripped off the seals that were placed on Seim's doors by the Governor-General Nekrasov. Russian troops, stationed in Helsingfors—all Bolsheviks, not only refused to prevent the assembly of the Seim, but did not let new troops, sent from Petrograd, into Helsingfors. See more

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Mikhail Bogoslovskiy

Moscow, Russian Republic

22.09.17

Most of the wood that we ordered has been delivered - and this is a huge event for our household. Now we can hope that we will stay warm in winter.

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Mikhail Bogoslovskiy

Shashkovo, Rybinsky uyezd, Russian Empire

05.09.17

We've received no papers and remained calm. Despite the difficult times, we've been joking and laughing. Life takes its course. That's how grass grows through tombstones.

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Mikhail Bogoslovskiy

Shashkovo, Rybinsky uyezd, Russian Empire

21.08.17

Ladies at the neighboring dacha become anxious at nights, they are afraid they might be robbed, and they don’t sleep well through the night. Everywhere we hear rumors about robberies. See more

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Age: 50

Occupation: historian Job: Moscow university professor in ordinary Interests: reforms of Peter the Great, everyday life of the Russian nobility