Valentin Kataev

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Age: 20

Occupation: writer, gunner

Rank: ensign

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Non-fiction

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

Valentin Kataev

Hospital, 50, Marazlievskaya street, Odessa, Russian Empire

18.08.17

Tending to the wounded at hospitals is sort of an obligatory ritual of our time, a patriotic duty, and girls fulfill it scrupuosly.

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Active army, Romanian front

12.08.17

Wounded during our summer offensive, I lay in a hospital train, boiling in the heat, raving from my wounds, rocking in my hammock and surrounded by strange apparitions. At night my fever led me across the thickly forested floodplains of the river Prut between Yassa and Ungena and revealed to me the land of my childhood and, unbeknownst to my childhood self, my ancestors. See more

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Yassy station, Russian Empire

11.08.17

A crowd of wounded officers surrounded a Red Cross hospital train, demanding to be allowed on board. This was clearly impossible: it was quite obvious even through the window how tightly packed the carriages were. Terrible, bandaged heads peered out of hammocks, and narrow, faces, deathly pale as masks, with pitiful eyes, so dark they looked painted, muddy-grey hospital gowns, and crutches, one of which was sticking out through the broken window of the carriage. See more

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Apt. 80, 3, Lavrushinsky per., Moscow, Russian Empire

29.06.17

Kerensky himself visited our division: hunched shoulders, bulbous nose, wearing a felt English cap with an unbuckled peak, his damaged hand in a suede glove pressed to the chest pocket of his coat; he stood in the command car surrounded by curious soldiers. He was screaming at them, his shaved mouth wide open, urging them to attack in the name of freedom and revolution.

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Age: 20

Occupation: writer, gunner Rank: ensign

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Ivan Bunin