Leonid Andreyev

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Age: 46

Lives in: Petrograd, Russian Empire

Occupation: writer, journalist Job: Head of the literary section of the newspaper "Russkaya Volya"

Interests: photography, gramophones, symbolism, spiritualism, short stories

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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

Leonid Andreyev

Vammelsuu, Finland

31.12.17

It's heinous to live in Russia. Or is it like this everywhere?

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Leonid Andreyev

Vammelsuu, Finland

06.12.17

Now everyone is blaming Kerensky, that he was weak and did not take steps to counter the Bolsheviks and the impending revolt in time. This is correct, Kerensky in his weakness and his compliance is guilty before Russia—and what had they, all these democrats, done to prevent the revolt? Nothing! See more

Leonid Andreyev

Vammelsuu, Finland

27.11.17

I state that I’m in at the moment, it’s not bios, it’s… an antibiosis, a half-life. I’m tired, as the poets say, with every fiber of my being and every atom of my body. Two months in the city and not a minute of rest; it was only in the countryside that I finally realized just how tired I was, how tense. I’m of no use for anything. See more

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Leonid Andreyev

Vammelsuu, Finland

11.11.17

There has been a revolution, but a revolution that has turned everything on its head. Everything is upside down. The day comes, and this is the picture that greets us: everything is upside down. And they tell us this is how we must live. See more

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Leonid Andreyev

Petrograd, Russian Republic

08.11.17

Very sad. Apparently, they surrendered.

#Revolution. Online

Leonid Andreyev

Vammelsuu, Finland

26.08.17

Nights and days are hot, dry, and even wonderful, and in politics it's the same: drowning Russia is floundering and letting out bubbles. And on the shore, the spectators and those commiserating: descend, chum, to the bottom. See more

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Leonid Andreyev

1, Moyka embankment, Petrograd, Russian Empire

09.08.17

I am an active member of the Petrograd insane asylum. I take part in the uprisings and the constant gunfire—like a hare takes part in the hunt. Lunacharskys, Trotskys, Lenins abound, Soviets, ministries, crises. And so many idiots!

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Leonid Andreyev

1, Moyka embankment, Petrograd, Russian Empire

06.07.17

I saw anarchists marching along Nevsky Prospect with a banner that read “Death to the Bourgeoisie”. From my study, these marching anarchists seem like rabble, imbeciles, pitiful two-legged animals; but when I had a look at their faces, something primordial rose before me. Yes, they were slaves, with their sunken cheeks and eyes, with the eternal sense of injury, their eternal anger and their rebellion. See more

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Leonid Andreyev

1, Moyka embankment, Petrograd, Russian Empire

13.05.17

When the whole world curses 'treacherous Russia', I will not curse her. How can I curse my own mother? I will be with her to eke out her bitter existence and only alone I will think 'we unhappy people, we unhappy people!' And perhaps no such Russia is needed at all? Is it possible that this is simply an obsolete term, which time will erase? Life is ineradicable. See more

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Leonid Andreyev

1, Moyka embankment, Petrograd, Russian Empire

12.03.17

Today is one of the greatest and most joyous days for Russia. What a day!

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Leonid Andreyev

1, Moyka embankment, Petrograd, Russian Empire

25.02.17

Feeling rather despondent. Things at the newspaper are not so good, there is a lot of absurd editorial nonsense that would take too long to write about. Stupidity, too. This, together with the censorship, is making the paper very mediocre and childish. Too many sarcastic sketches. But we will continue to fight and not lose hope. I’m as stubborn as a mule in this sense: once I devote myself to something I don’t see anything else, and now, unless I am writing for Russkaya Volya or fighting with Russkaya Volya or talking about Russkaya Volya, I feel I have nothing to live for. It’s absurd!

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Leonid Andreyev

1, Moyka embankment, Petrograd, Russian Empire

25.01.17

It would seem that there’s a way of getting drunk without resorting to vodka: exhaustion and autosuggestion. Throughout these days I have been positively, genuinely drunk. I find it rather agreeable.

By my reckoning, 1917 will be my death year.

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Age: 46

Lives in: Petrograd, Russian Empire

Occupation: writer, journalist Interests: photography, gramophones, symbolism, spiritualism, short stories Job: Head of the literary section of the newspaper "Russkaya Volya"

Friends

Maxim Gorky

Alexander Blok

Korney Chukovsky