1917. Free history. 8 November

Riots in Petrograd. Live broadcast.

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

George Buchanan

4, Dvortsovaya embankment, Petrograd, Russian Republic (British Embassy)

At six o'clock yesterday evening armoured cars took up positions at all points commanding the approaches to the Winter Palace, and shortly afterwards delegates from the revolutionary committee came and demanded its unconditional surrender. See more

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Nicholas II

Tobolsk, Russian Republic

From 10 o'clock to 11 o'clock I was with Kastritsky. During the evening I said goodbye to him. He left for the Crimea. The day became nice; in the sun it was 11 degrees. For a long time I chopped firewood.

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Leon Trotsky

Smolny Institute, Petrograd, Russian Republic

I felt like a surgeon who has finished a difficult and dangerous operation I must wash my hands, take off my apron, and rest. Lenin was in a different position. He had just arrived from his refuge, after spending three and a half months cut off from real, practical direction. See more

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Alexander Kerensky

Pskov, Russian Republic

I, Minister-President of the Provisional Government, and Supreme Commander of all the armed forces of the Russian Republic, declare that I am at the head of regiments from the Front who have remained faithful to the fatherland. See more

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Vladimir Lenin

Smolny Institute, Petrograd, Russian Republic

Decree on Land

(1) Landed proprietorship is abolished forthwith without any compensation.

(2) The landed estates, as also all crown, monastery, and church lands, with all their livestock, implements, buildings and everything pertaining thereto, shall be placed at the disposal of the volost land committees and the uyezd Soviets of Peasants’ Deputies pending the convocation of the Constituent Assembly. See more

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John Reed

Petrograd, Russian Republic

Day broke on a city in the wildest excitement and confusion, a whole nation having up in long hissing swells of storm. Superficially all was quiet; hundreds of thousands of people retired at a prudent hour, got up early, and went to work. See more

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Alexander Kolchak

San Francisco, USA

On the day of my departure, I received news about a Bolshevik coup in Petrograd. Apparently, Kerensky fled, the government is overthrown, and the Soviets are in control of the city. See more

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