11 February 1917. Alexandre Benois

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

Alexandre Benois

38, 1st line of Vasilyevsky Island, Petrograd, Russian Empire

In the evening a big group of us went to a picture show and we were punished for such self-indulgence; the film was awful.

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Maxim Gorky

23, Kronversky ave., Petrograd, Russian Empire

When I finally collapse, many numskulls will be frightfully shocked to learn of how great a capacity I had for work. This, probably, is my best quality; at the very least it is the only one of them that is remotely good.

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Elizaveta Naryshkina with Tsarevich Alexei

The boy has fallen ill - a new worry for the Empress! The weather is very good these days. I’ll take a carriage for some fresh air.

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Grand Duchess Olga with Tsarevich Alexei

Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire

Buried myself in magazines again. At 2.30 went for a walk with Father. Six degrees of frost. Aleksey is still bedridden. He feels very poorly. At 6 I went to see Anna, and until 7.45 we sat very comfortably by the fire. Mother is very tired.

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Feodor Chaliapin

sings an aria as Philippe II in "Don Carlos" by Verdi

Moscow, Russian Empire

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Irina Yusupova

Rakitnoe estate, Kurskaya guberniya, Russain Empire

I can’t bear to look at another deck of cards again, and yet I can’t tear myself away from them! The situation is hopeless. But you shouldn’t think that I spend all my time at solitaire; sometimes I knit scarves. I’ve even finished one.

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The New York Times

PETROGRAD, Feb. 11 (via London). Eleven members of the workmen’s group of the Central Military and Industrial Committee of Petrograd have been arrested, charged with belonging to revolutionary parties and fomenting a labor movement with the ultimate aim of transforming Russia into a Social Democratic republic. This official announcement was made today.

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10 February

Receiving the chairman of the Russian parliament, the Emperor is unusually cold and abrupt

“The situation is critical. If railway transport is stopped for two weeks there will be a famine. There is already no flour here.”

A chance to hear the voice of Fyodor Chaliapin, the most famous bass opera singer of the early 20th century

Nightmare before Christmas

Death of Rasputin. Murder conspiracy and its consequences

1916: Year in Review.

-8

in Petrograd

-6

in Moscow