23 January 1917. Julius Martov

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

Julius Martov

Zurich, Switzerland

I firmly resolved not to buy any galoshes this winter, having previously acquired some warm woollen stockings; now that much of the winter is behind us, there’s probably no point.

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Mikhail Rodzianko

32, Kirochnaya street, Petrograd, Russian Empire

The time has come to speak the truth, however unpleasant it may be.

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Maxim Gorky

23, Kronversky ave., Petrograd, Russian Empire

I’m in Piter- the weather is good here, it doesn’t feel like Piter at all.

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Nikolai Pokrovsky with Maurice Paleologue

Petrograd, Russian Empire

Maurice Paléologue, the French ambassador, is a very lively and affable man. An old bachelor and lover of the fair sex, he’s a jovial fellow, just like all Frenchmen. He knows but little of the affairs of the country in which he has resided for several years.

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Elizaveta Naryshkina with Woodrow Wilson

Petrograd, Russian Empire

Wilson is proposing peace (for a second time), as well as an accord between all countries including America: an international army or some kind of international institution for global security. What sort of institution would this be? It would, of course, consist entirely of Jews. Which would enable them to dictate their laws to all other nations.

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Edvard Munch

Achill villa, Oslo, Norway

In a therapy session

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Nicholas Roerich

at work on "Holy Lake"

Relander's, Yuhinlahti Bay, Russian Empire

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Maurice Paleologue

10, Kutuzova embankment, Petrograd, Russian Empire

I have dined at Tsarskoïe-Selo with the Grand Duke Paul's family party.

When we rose from table, the Grand Duke took me into a distant room so that we could talk as man to man. He made me the confidante of all his griefs and anxieties.

From his emotion and the tone of his words I could see that he is terribly upset that his son Dimitri should have been involved in the prologue of the drama. . He continued umprompted:

"Isn't it dreadful that, all over the Empire, candles are being lit before the ikon of Saint Dimitri and my son is being styled the liberator of Russia!"

The notion that his son might be proclaimed Tsar at any time does not seem to have entered his head. He is what he has always been, a paragon of loyalty and chivalry.

He then told me that when he heard at Mohilev of Rasputin's murder, he immediately returned to Tsarskoïe-Selo.

Next morning the Grand Duke Paul went to Petrograd to see his son at the palace on the Nevsky Prospekt. He asked him:

"Did you kill Rasputin?

"No."

"Are you prepared to swear it on the holy ikon of the Virgin and your mother's photograph?"

"Yes."

The Grand Duke Paul then handed him an ikon of the Virgin and a photograph of the late Grand Duchess Alexandra:

"Now: swear that you didn't kill Rasputin."

"I swear it."

As he told me this incident, the Grand Duke made a really touching picture of nobility, truth and dignity.

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22 January

Charlie Chaplin is injured in a workplace accident

Gorky begs Bunin to write something for a new paper

The Chairman of the Russian Parliament insists that the Empress stop interfering in politics

Map of the Royal dynasties of Europe

Romanovs dangerous liaisons

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in Petrograd

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in Moscow