Grigori Rasputin

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

Alexandre Benois

38, 1st line of Vasilyevsky Island, Petrograd, Russian Republic

30.12.17

Rasputin was killed one year ago today. My God, it's been quite some time, so much trouble has occurred! And so many of his prophecies have come true...

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Nikolai Wrangel

Petrograd, Russian Empire

07.06.17

Strictly speaking, everything has remained the same as it was during the reign of Nicholas II, only then it was one weak leader doing as Rasputin ordered, whereas now there are several incompetents following the orders of the Council of Workers’ and Solders’ Deputies. See more

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Mathilde Kschessinska

P. N. Vladimirov's apart., 10, Alekseevskaya str., Petrograd, Russian Empire

25.05.17

Many thought, probably the participants themselves, that with the disappearance of Rasputin everything would improve; the evil surrounding the throne would be removed, the malevolent forces on the Emperor would subside, Russia would finally breathe again, and the glory days would arrive. But oh, how everyone was mistaken. Maybe some of it counted. But from that very moment, everything began to roll towards the fateful conclusion.

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