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
Vasilievskoe estate, Glotovo village, Orlovskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
07.08.17
Dear Peter, us smokers are having a terrible time here getting our hands on tobacco, but, I imagine, you fortunates in the south can still get as much as you want,
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so I appeal to you with the most urgent of requests: if you can, buy me as quickly as possible two or three pounds, or at the very least a pound, at 15 roubles on the pound, or for 12, or for 10, or at the worst for 5 roubles (though, of course, the more expensive the better), and keep it somewhere dry for me, letting me know how much you spent on it so I can send you the money.
And please, I beg you, just do it without any fucking wisecracking.