Vasily Rozanov

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Age: 61

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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

Vasily Rozanov

1, Polevaya street, Sergiev Posad, Russian Republic

28.11.17

Russia has disappeared in two days. In three days at most. Even the paper "Novoe vremya" couldn't be closed faster than Russia was closed. See more

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Korney Chukovsky

27, Zagorodny avenue, Petrograd, Russian Republic

30.10.17

On the train, Rozanov could not stop making fun of Pavel Berlin because his name is the name of a city. “And then there’s Jack London!” he said, “What kind of fad is this? Come on! I don’t call myself Petersburg. Chukovsky doesn’t call himself Moscow. We are humble people. And then there’s even Anatole France. I could be Vasilii Russia! I would be ashamed to show my face.”

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Vasily Rozanov

1, Polevaya street, Sergiev Posad, Russian Republic

25.09.17

It’s not the West who is hardworking, it’s the East. The West dallies. It works carelessly. But the moral labor is in the East - the East always prays to God for help.

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Vasily Rozanov

1, Polevaya street, Sergiev Posad, Russian Empire

18.08.17

All Christian literature is asceticism on the surface and paganism beneath. These aspects, so to say, are locked in struggle. One can never triumph over the other. If paganism dies, so dies the sun, so dies the world. See more

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Vasily Rozanov

Petrograd, Russian Empire

10.07.17

A republic is simply youth, always youth, and it is limited by youth alone. It can be preserved only so long as it remains (almost physiologically) innocent, clean, fresh, and noble. As soon as these moral qualities disappear from a republic, it turns into a monarchy without fail, whether its republican form remains in place or not. See more

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Vasily Rozanov

Petrograd, Russian Empire

15.05.17

Lenin was always considered a creature of the gutter, and a thinker of the most phillistine ignorance. He is outdoing even this reputation.

Lenin rejects Russia. Not only does he reject the Russian Republic, but he rejects Russia. As for the people, he does not recognise them. Recognising only classes and estates, he calls on all Russians to think only on their narrow class interests and advantages. He does not, and does not want to, see a unified people.

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Vasily Rozanov

Shpalernaya, 44, Petrograd, Russian Empire

15.04.17

Let us pray for our infelicitous Tsar, who is spending Easter as a prisoner. And let us pray, too, for Aleksei Nikolaevich, the heir to the throne, and for the Tsar’s daughters Olga and Tatiana... But as regards the German – no, we shan’t pray for her.

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Age: 61