Pierre Pascal

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Age: 27

Rank: Lieutenant

Occupation: Member of the French military mission in Russia

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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

Pierre Pascal

Petrograd, Russian Republic

23.11.17

The inhabitants of a certain village in the Tul’skaia gubernia splendidly buried, and at public expense, the daughter of its former landowner who was killed in the war. They even erected a chapel above the grave et cetera. Recently they set about pillaging the property, exhumed the grave, opened the coffin and took the boots off the corpse.

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Pierre Pascal

Petrograd, Russian Republic

07.10.17

Madame Patouillet is always abusing Russia. Monsieur is more circumspect: he blames not so much the people as the intellectuals who refuse to take part in the war.

The railway workers are striking. But the strike committee has promised to try not to hinder troop or supply movements.

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Pierre Pascal

Petrograd, Russian Republic

06.10.17

On the tram, in the second carriage; I very much enjoy being amongst the soldiers here. They joke: “the civies ought to sit at the back.” – “There aren’t any civies left! The caps are going cheap.” A warrant officer came in: one of the soldiers asked him whether he had far to go yet. He answered with a smile: “Far”. “Then sit down, it’ll be more comfortable for you here, Major.” See more

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Pierre Pascal

Petrograd, Russian Republic

02.10.17

I had lunch with Guinot at Francois’s. The maid wants to go and sign up for the women’s brigade. Soldiers in the courtyard are passing the time by shooting at pigeons. Troubling news in the evening: the soldiers of the garrison are discussing how to settle scores with the city’s foreign population.

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Pierre Pascal

Petrograd, Russian Republic

30.09.17

Today is the birthday of Vera Nikolaevna Lodyzhenskaya: it says in the calendar "Saints Faith, Hope and Charity".

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Pierre Pascal

Petrograd, Russian Republic

28.09.17

At the conference, the new Minister for War, Verhovsky, gave a speech. In order to restore the army, we need to reduce the number of personnel: barely one in ten people mobilised to this point were fighters, the rest remained at the rear. In the words of Kerensky: “If I ever sign a death sentence, you will curse me”. Unrest in Nizhny: Soldiers have seized hospitals and have shot the wounded; then they were sent to the front as volunteers”.

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Pierre Pascal

Petrograd, Russian Republic

27.09.17

The All-Russia Democratic Conference has opened. There's a sacred procession in town, people are praying for Russia.

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Pierre Pascal

Petrograd, Russian Empire

06.09.17

Russian newspapers today give an overview of the big Parisian scandal: AlmereydaEvgeny Vigo is a radical French anarchist, socialist and internationalist. His alias, Miguel Almereida, is an anagram of the expression "this shit" (fr. - y'a la merde). He was found dead in the prison cell. is killed in prison, the reputation of six ministers and their deputies was compromised in “Bonnet Rouge”The satirical radical French newspaper ("The Phrygian Cap"), Clemenceau fulminates. The government is more than shaken.

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Pierre Pascal

Petrograd, Russian Empire

02.09.17

Elections. Everyone is calm. Many people won’t vote - and they will regret it later.

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Pierre Pascal

Petrograd, Russian Empire

27.08.17

Overall, here in Russia we have a much better mutual understanding and liking with Americans than with the British. We can only accomplish something with Americans. See more

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Pierre Pascal

Petrograd, Russian Empire

26.08.17

The spectacle of the street. A line forms at the tobacconist: then soldiers procure cigarettes by the case, settle on the sidewalk, and start to sell them, individually, to pedestrians. Very resourceful. “Revolutionary People,” an evening newspaper of the socialist revolutionaries, in response publishes a heated protest by a war veteran (a comfrey, a person from the trenches). See more

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Pierre Pascal

Petrograd, Russian Empire

24.08.17

A great discovery. I read Dostoevsky’s The Idiot from start to finish, unable to tear myself away. There is a character in the book called Myshkin – an idiot, a Christian, meek and kind with human frailties; a young boy, Kolya; a general’s wife - kind-hearted, but excitable woman; and another woman, Nastasya Filippovna, who has been corrupted through no fault of her own. See more

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Pierre Pascal

Petrograd, Russian Empire

27.07.17

There’s anything you want in the Finland, Vyborg, Tammerfors and other train stations. The old custom remains in force: you pay 3 to 4 marks at the buffet entrance and you can eat whatever you want. Hors d'oeuvre a plenty. Finns are very poorly disposed to Russians. The Finns are kinder. Russian troops are not kicked around. See more

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Pierre Pascal

Petrograd, Russian Empire

23.07.17

Should we say the Russian Revolution is founded upon the delusion that man is good by nature? Or should we rejoice that the Russian has an unusually clear understanding of natural laws and greater bravery in the face of collective prejudice? See more

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Pierre Pascal

Petrograd, Russian Empire

22.07.17

I refuse to blame Russian soldiers, even now, considering the current situation. Only heroes fight, or those who are forced to. It is impossible to make everyone be a hero.

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Age: 27

Rank: Lieutenant Occupation: Member of the French military mission in Russia