Nadezhda Teffi

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Age: 45

Lives in: Petrograd, Russian Empire

Real name: Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya Job: the magazine «Novyj Satiricon», the newspaper «Russkoe slovo»

Occupation: writer

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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

Anna Akhmatova

Petrograd, Russian Republic

29.12.17

is attending an event at the Union of the People of Art

Also going: Bely, Blok, Sologub, Ivnev, Yesenin, Kuzmin, Mandelstam, Teffi.

Sergei Yesenin

2, Panteleymonovskaya street, Petrograd, Russian Republic

27.12.17

is reading poetry at the Dekabrist Memorial Night

Also going: Blok, Akhmatova, Sologub, Teffi, Ivnev, ZamyatinMarine engineer, writer, Mandelstam.

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Nadezhda Teffi

Petrograd, Russian Empire

14.07.17

On a daily basis, a figure would appear on the balcony of Kschesinskaya’s house, wave its hands around, and scream in a husky voice. After having screamed for a couple of hours, it would go inside to warm up. A different figure would replace it. All of these figures carried the shared title “Lenin.”

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Nadezhda Teffi

Petrograd, Russian Empire

05.07.17

The Bolsheviks were flummoxed. They didn’t expect what had happened. They didn’t expect an offensive.

But it doesn’t matter, and there is nothing to lose hope over. After all, this is fully consistent with the psychology of Bolshevism: the Bolsheviks never expect what going to happen. They never feel or anticipate the twists and turns of history and are deprived of any political intuition for the rare and astounding. See more

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Nadezhda Teffi

Petrograd, Russian Empire

20.06.17

They gnaw seeds! This stupid and dangerous disease has consumed all of Russia. Seeds are gnawed by women, children, boys and soldiers, soldiers, soldiers… Impartial historians, as they are called, will call this period of the Russian revolution a period of seed gnawing. See more

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Age: 45

Lives in: Petrograd, Russian Empire

Real name: Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya Occupation: writer Job: the magazine «Novyj Satiricon», the newspaper «Russkoe slovo»

Friends

Alexandre Benois

Aleksey Tolstoy

Dmitry Merezhkovsky

Zinaida Gippius