Nikolay Punin

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Age: 29

Lives in: Petrograd, Russian Empire

Occupation: art historian, art critic

Job: Russian Museum

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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

Nikolay Punin

Fountain house, 53, Liteynyy avenue, Petrograd, Russian Empire

13.03.17

The troops are disorganised, they’re all thronging about while officerless military patrols attempt to maintain order. Could it really be that socialism’s creative energies will be put into effect? My people, will you find in it yourselves to become great at last?

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Nikolay Punin

Fountain house, 53, Liteynyy avenue, Petrograd, Russian Empire

12.03.17

На углу Кирочной и Литейного бой. В воротах Экономического общества (Армии и Флота) засели около 60 человек солдат с офицером, верных правительству, они отстреливаются. На парадной Александровского Комитета о раненых, что напротив по Кирочной, испорченный пулемет, его поливают горячей водой, говорят, замерз.

На улицах полное движение по панелям, интеллигенции крайне мало.

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Nikolay Punin

Fountain house, 53, Liteynyy avenue, Petrograd, Russian Empire

12.03.17

High tension. The government was shooting at workers and the crowd. Killed. Nothing is known about the State Duma. Evening newspapers did not come out. They say that the Cossacks are fraternizing with the workers. In one printing house on Vasilievsky Island they drank tea together with printing workers, my neighbor, the owner of this printing house, reported. Can this be a symptom? ..

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Nikolay Punin

on the beginning of the Revolution

Petrograd, Russian Empire

10.03.17

I went to Obukhov Hospital; Crowd. Killed are in the morgue. A small slippery shed, banches along the walls, on which white bedsheets with red crosses are prepared. Five dead men lie wrapped in these shrouds: three workers, a boy, a woman; The crowd moves, discusses, resents. They shoot, they talk the whole morning at Liteiny, Kirochnaya, near the Nikolayevsky station ...

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Nikolay Punin

Petrograd, Russian Empire

28.02.17

Only someone – and this is truly rare – who is a creative type of person but also thinks, lives and realises himself predominantly in picturesque forms, i.e. with paint, in spatial form and relationships etc., only that person can, through the result of their creativity, yield a painting that is pure.

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Age: 29

Lives in: Petrograd, Russian Empire

Occupation: art historian, art critic Job: Russian Museum

Friends

Alexander Blok

Nikolay Gumilyov

Anna Akhmatova

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Vyacheslav Ivanov