8 July 1917. Alfred Knox

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

Alfred Knox

Petrograd, Russian Empire

I returned to Petrograd on the evening of July 8th, to find the state of the garrison very much as it was at the end of May. There was no work and no discipline. The political situation had changed to this extent, that the Sovyet was now working in nominal co-operation with the Provisional Government, and the Extremist element among the troops had begun to look more and more to the Bolshevik faction, whose demand of an immediate peace was more popular than the tardy appeal of the Sovyet in the interests of national defence. Lenin, from the balcony of the house of the dancer Kshinskaya, on the right bank of the Neva, opposite the British Embassy, harangued crowds nightly without interference from the authorities.

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Rurik Ivnev

What rubbish! And I wanted to love “humanity.” People are so nasty, so nasty. How great it would have been to live among dogs or horses. If you think about it: high sky, fluffy clouds, it has rained recently. A wide country road. On its sides—huts. And in every hut there are dogs. They drink milk, and, like people, eat fried potatoes, puppies are playing on porches, and I go to pick mushrooms with three dogs. See more

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Mohyliv-Podilskyi, Russian Empire

Word from the front is that numerous units did not follow orders and abandoned their positions while others did not come forward to provide reinforcement. Every one of these orders had been discussed ahead of time in our meetings. Crowds of soldiers who have deserted their units have begun wandering the roads, robbing and beating people in whatever local villages they pass. See more

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Filippo Marinetti

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Udine, Italia

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Nicholas II

Alexander Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire

During the morning I went outside with Alexis. The weather was cold. We went to iVlass. We went for a walk until 2 o'clock. We were drenched by a short rainstorm. We cut down and sawed up a small fir tree. We watched as our people cut the grass. We sat in the garden a while and then returned home. I read aloud until dinner time.

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Alexandre Benois

Petrograd, Russian Empire

Glorious celestial impressions beyond the Peter and Paul Cathedral. In general, Petersburg is as beautiful as ever. The city’s last summer?

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The New York Times

The foes of whisky won their fight in the Senate when Section 12 of the Food Administration bill was amended so as to prohibit further manufacture of distilled spirits during the war, while the President was directed to take over for the Government all stocks of distilled spirits, including rum, gin and brandy, in bond, but the owner of stocks must be paid. As finally passed, the section allows making of wine and beer.

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7 July

Regiments refuse to go to the front

Soldiers are deserting en masse

The Bolsheviks demand soldiers be given the freedom to protest

From one revolution to another

Russia in 1917

1916: Year in Review.

+10

in Petrograd

+14

in Moscow