9 February 1917. Nikolai Wrangel

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

Nikolai Wrangel

«Беспорядки» обывателя не пугают. К ним привыкли. Поводов к классовой борьбе, казалось, нет, потому что не было ненависти к имущим классам, которые разделяли со всем населением тяготы военного времени. Все слои населения одинаково испытывают неудовольствие против правительства, и поэтому опасаться кровавых эксцессов причин нет. Даже полиция не волнуется. Как и все остальные, она привыкла к беспорядкам и не видит в них ничего угрожающего. Толпа не горит тем огнем, который внушением передается и посторонних заражает, заставляет бессознательно ощущать то, что ощущает она, и следовать за ней.

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Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich

Kislovodsk, Russian Empire

I have been here for six days, far away from earthly cares in the peaceful mountains and valleys of the Caucasus. I am resting, both physically and mentally. It is a selfish feeling, but so pleasant to belong entirely to oneself sometimes, and to live as one wants, and not as one is ordered to do.

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Finland

Leaving for his honeymoon

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Anna Pavlova

Cuba

Travelling to Cuba

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Julius Martov with Leon Trotsky

Zurich, Switzerland

I have found out that Trotsky has been rather active in the anti-war campaign which has recently begun in America, writing several articles for newspapers and speaking at meetings. Incidentally, it seems he has started calling himself, in the English manner, “Leo N. Trotzky”.

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Grand Duchess Olga

Alexander Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire

We [went] to the Church of Our Lady of the Sign and to the hospital. An operation was performed to remove a piece of shrapnel and strengthen the patient’s collarbone with wire. We took round breakfast and helped to make the beds. We and Mother received two American guests. Then Mother lay on the balcony. I went for a walk with Father. It was bright, sunny and warm - real spring weather.

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8 February

Artists and writers are succumbing to a cold and flu

The government is “jumping about as if there were a fire”

Lenin is worried about his party

1917. Zombies, drugs, and progress

Why did the Russian Empire collapse

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in Petrograd

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in Moscow