Anatoliy Lunacharskiy

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Age: 42

Interests: foreign languages, philosophy, poetry, rhethoric

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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

Romain Rolland

Grand Hotel Chateau Bellevue, Sierre, Switzerland

20.11.17

The Bolsheviks are in power. Lenin, Trotsky, Lunacharsky, are national commissioners of Internal Affairs, Foreign Affairs, and National Education. There is a truce offering with Germany. The Allies refuse to recognise the government of the Russian Revolution. And pacifists are blamed for all problems!

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Alexandre Benois

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

20.11.17

The Au Bon Gout pastry shop, which is in our building, is refusing from now on to bake bread for us. Now our poor servants will have to stand for hours once again in those “lines”! See more

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Zinaida Gippius

Sergievskaya 83, Petrograd, Russian Republic

16.11.17

We have been terribly anxious for the prisoners since X. returned from the the Peter and Paul Fortress. Things there are bad, the “commandant” himself is afraid of the sailors, who seem capable of anything. We must conspire to have the prisoners removed. See more

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Anatoliy Lunacharskiy

Smolny Institute, Petrograd, Russian Republic

15.11.17

I’ve just heard from eyewitness about what has happened in Moscow. St. Basil the Blessed cathedral and Uspensky cathedral have been destroyed. The Kremlin, where all of our most important artistic treasures from St Petersburg and Moscow are now being kept, is being bombed. See more

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Anatoliy Lunacharskiy

08.11.17

The Soviet government will propose an immediate democratic peace to all the nations and an immediate armistice on all fronts. It will secure the transfer of the land of the landed proprietors, the crown and the monasteries to the peasant committees without compensation; it will protect the rights of the soldiers by introducing complete democracy in the army; it will establish workers’ control over production; it will ensure the convocation of the Constituent Assembly at the time appointed; it will see to it that bread is supplied to the cities and prime necessities to the villages; it will guarantee all the nations inhabiting Russia the genuine right to self-determination.

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Anatoliy Lunacharskiy

08.11.17

The Congress decrees: all power in the localities shall pass to the Soviets of Workers’, Soldiers’ and Peasants’ Deputies, which must guarantee genuine revolutionary order.

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Anatoliy Lunacharskiy

08.11.17

Soldiers, actively resist Kerensky the Kornilovite! Be on your guard! Railwaymen, hold up all troop trains dispatched by Kerensky against Petrograd! Soldiers, workers in factory and office, the fate of the revolution and the fate of the democratic peace is in your hands! Long live the revolution!

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Anatoliy Lunacharskiy

07.11.17

The Bolsheviks make a point of keeping the civil war (should one happen) humane.

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Anatoliy Lunacharskiy

Smolny Institute, Petrograd, Russian Republic

07.11.17

The Bolshevik faction has absolutely nothing against Martov's suggestion.

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Anatoliy Lunacharskiy Anna Lunacharskaya

Petrograd, Russian Republic

06.11.17

The situation is dire. The Military Revolutionary Committee and the General Headquarters are waiting to see who goes first.

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Anatoliy Lunacharskiy Anna Lunacharskaya

Smolny Institute, Petrograd, Russian Republic

06.11.17

Do the Soviets have enough strength to seize power? It is very likely that they do. Do the Soviets have enough strength to save Russian and the revolution? It is likely that they do not.

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Anatoliy Lunacharskiy Anna Lunacharskaya

Petrograd, Russian Republic

04.11.17

It's a difficult time. No glimpses of light. The mood is close to a heroic despair. See more

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Anatoliy Lunacharskiy

Petrograd, Russian Republic

27.10.17

My dear,

I’m not sure that I’ll have time to write to you tomorrow morning, so I’m writing at night. It’s bad. Very bad. See more

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John Reed

Obukovsky factory, Petrograd, Russian Republic

12.10.17

Day after day the Bolshevik orators toured the barracks and factories, violently denouncing “this Government of civil war.” One Sunday we went, on a top-heavy steam tram that lumbered through oceans of mud, between stark factories and immense churches, to Obukhovsky Zavod, a Government munitions-plant out on the Schlüsselburg Prospekt. See more

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Anna Vyrubova

Sveaborg fortress, Finland

10.10.17

Although we did not know it at the time, our fate really hung on the outcome of a Congress of Soviets which was then being held in Petrograd, and to which both Sheiman and Ostrovsky were delegates. See more

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Age: 42

Interests: foreign languages, philosophy, poetry, rhethoric

Married to

Anna Lunacharskaya

Friends

Maxim Gorky

Vladimir Lenin

Herbert George Wells

Nikolai Berdyaev

Nikolay Sukhanov