Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich

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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

Gatchina, Russian Republic

20.12.17

Fighting has been going on all this time on the Don river between Cossacks and Bolshevik divisions. In Kiev, the Ukrainians have disarmed the Bolsheviks. The Rada is refusing to submit to the Bolshevik government. Raids on wine cellars are continuing in Petrograd. There is a great deal of shooting and a great many drunk people.

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Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich

Gatchina, Russian Republic

18.12.17

These days peace negotiations are taking place in Brest-Litovsk. Seemingly, the arrival of German officers to Petrograd will start one of these days, they say, for the demobilisation of the Russian army. That’s the level of humiliation Russia has reached!

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Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich

Gatchina, Russian Republic

16.12.17

Rumors that Nicki had escaped Tobolsk turned out, of course, to be completely false.

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Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich

Gatchina, Russian Republic

15.12.17

I read in papers that Niki, apparently, ran away from Tobolsk - I guess it must be just rumors.

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Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich

Gatchina, Russian Republic

06.12.17

In the morning, soldiers from the aviation school came and impressed, rather confiscated, wine, 80 bottles, and sugar. All this they’ve done according to the decree of the Soviet. Notably, they have broken some bottles right there and drank their contents.

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Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich

Gatchina, Russian Republic

29.11.17

Come back sooner, it's boring and empty here without you. I'm very lonely. The guards were dismissed yesterday, two of our people were on watch duty tonight, and tomorrow, it seems, new guards will be assigned to us.

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Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich

Petrograd, Russian Republic

25.11.17

The situation continues to stay the same—all power remains in the hands of the Bolsheviks, headed by Lenin and Trotsky; ensign Krylenko has been appointed the War Minister and the Commander-in-Chief, who, according to the newspapers, is heading to the headquarters instead of the deposed General Dukhonin. See more

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Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich

Gatchina, Russian Republic

16.11.17

We have also not received any newspapers all this time. The bourgeois press is silent. In the morning we learnt that there are troop movements in Luga, but whose troops? Some assume they are Kerensky’s. There have been skirmishes around Suida. See more

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Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich

Gatchina, Russian Republic

13.11.17

We got up late. The political perspectives have not grown lighter, but neither have they grown dimmer. We continue packing. After tea, A.N and I walked around the streets for a bit and heard separate shots towards the zoo and the palace. Both sides have announced a truce in order to establish the structure of the future government by noon the next day.

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Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich

Gatchina, Russian Republic

10.11.17

Rumour has it that the Bolsheviks at Tsarskoe Selo have surrendered without much of a struggle. It appears that there was a detachment of sailors near Taaitsa planning to go to Gatchina to arrest Kerensky, who was at the palace. See more

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Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich

Gatchina, Russian Republic

09.11.17

Near the Admiralty Gates, we got into a car and set off across the Menagerie and past the Gatchina Palace, and saw weapons taken from units leaving Petrograd being brought in. The Cossacks had also disarmed the sailors who had been occupying the Warsaw Station, and besides rifles, they had ten machine guns. See more

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Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich

Gatchina, Russian Republic

06.11.17

All the bridges in Petrograd have been opened in preparation for the Bolshevik attack, which is expected at any moment.

#Revolution. Online #Guarding bridges

Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich

Gatchina, Russian Republic

01.11.17

We're expecting a Bolshevik uprising any day now.

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Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich

Gatchina, Russian Republic

30.10.17

In the morning I read. In the afternoon, Natasha, Johnson and I went to Remiz, at the second gate we stepped out and walked past the Tea House to the Black Lake. By the river I shot from the Mauser, was testing it. Before reaching the lake we went back to the car and were back home by 5 o’clock.

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Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich

Gatchina, Russian Republic

25.10.17

In the morning, I read, and waked around the garden. At 3 o’clock I took a walk in the grove beyond the crossing. When I returned home, Baranov’s son was there who asked me to be the godfather to his son Andrei. Then I read and played the guitar.

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Age: 38

Nickname: Mimi

Brother

Nicholas II

Mother

Maria Feodorovna

Sister

Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna

Sister

Grand Duchess Ksenia Alexandrovna

Friends

Anna Vyrubova

Alexandra Feodorovna