8 September 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

London, United Kingdom

On Saturday the 8th—a fateful day in Russia—the War Cabinet did not meet.

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Boris Savinkov

Winter palace, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire

I came to the Winter Palace to a session of the Provisional Government in order to defend a bill on the death penalty behind the front line. Without a word, Kerensky held out a piece of paper covered in writing to me. I read it and could not believe my eyes. The gist of it was that the Commander-in-Chief is ordering the immediate transfer of complete military and civil authority to him. The signature of V Lvov was beneath this ultimatum. I advised Kerensky to come to an arrangement with Gen. KornilovCommander in Chief of the Petrograd command - from 18 March 1917.

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Vladimir Lvov

Winter Palace, Petrograd, Russian Empire

General Kornilov is suggesting:

1) Declaring a state of emergency in Petrograd;

2) Transferring all power in its entirety, military and civil, to the Commander-in-Chief;

3) The resignation of all ministers, including the chairman, and handing over temporary control of the ministries to deputy ministers, until the Commander-in-Chief has formed his cabinet.

Alexander Kerensky

Moyka embarkment, Petrograd, Russian Empire

I immediately went to the Malakhitov Hall, where the Cabinet meeting was being held, and, after reporting on my meeting with Lvov, I read out his memo and the verbatim text of my conversation with Kornilov. After pleading for the suppression of the mutiny, I declared that I only considered it possible to fight the rebellion if the Provisional Government transferred all power into my hands. See more

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Ivan Bunin

Vasilievskoe estate, Glotovo village, Orlovskaya guberniya, Russian Empire

I finished reading Gippius. An incredibly disgusting soul, not a single vivid word, various fantasies driven into stupid rhymes. She doesn't have a jot of poetic soul.

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