Petr Polovtsov

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Age: 43

Job: Commander-in-Chief of the Petrograd Military district

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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

Petr Polovtsov

Vladikavkaz, Russian Republic

30.11.17

The breakdown is getting worse.

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Alfred Knox

Petrograd, Russian Republic

11.10.17

Rogosin told me a story of Kerensky. One day, some weeks ago, the little Tsarevitch was playing at Tsarskoe Selo with a toy gun that the Cossacks had presented him with in the old days and of which he was passionately proud, when an officious soldier took the toy from him “lest he should shoot the sentries.” See more

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Petr Polovtsov

Vladikavkaz, Terskaya guberniya, Russian Republic

03.10.17

Unbelievable chaos! There is no end to robberies and internecine fights, various governments are issuing decrees, writing appeals, and are engaged in diplomatic correspondence with each other, but life, and rather boisterous one at that, is proceeding in its way, and in many places power has been seized by committees with clear Bolshevik tendencies.

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Age: 43

Job: Commander-in-Chief of the Petrograd Military district