2 August 1917. George Buchanan

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

George Buchanan

4, Dvortsovaya embankment, Petrograd, Russian Empire (British Embassy)

Letter to the Foreign Ministry

"I have reason to believe that the non-Socialist members of the Gk)vernment would much prefer that the Stockholm conference should not take place for fear that peace talk might have a bad influence on the army. They will not, however, place any obstacles in the way of the attendance of Russian Sociahsts, but they will not consider themselves bound by the decisions which the conference may take. They are anxious that it should be attended by Sociahsts of other alHed countries so that Russia should not be left tete-a-tete with Germany.

My personal opinion is that it w^ould be a mistake to leave the Germans a clear field at Stockholm, more especially as it would render our attitude open to mis- construction here. As we have no intention of being bound by the conference's decisions, I do not see how the attendance of British Socialists can prejudice our interests."

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Boris Nikolsky

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I have to buy coffee, the price of which has gone up by 30%. I am going to buy 14 pounds of coffee, 20 pounds of malt, and 16 pounds of chicory. This should last the year. It seems, after all, that coffee will form the larger part of our diet, and while my mixture of malt and coffee is, of course, less inspiring than pure coffee, it is undoubtedly more nutritious. Only a well-stocked parlour will save us.

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Alexander Zamaraev

Totma, Vologodskaya guberniya, Russian Empire

A fine clear morning. These days while the crops are not entirely good, the harvest is a success. The prices are as follows: rye wheat - 5 r. 50 k., and only by ration cards from the peasants. Fish, it seems, has disappeared completely, one perch is 80 kopeks, margarine - 2 r., eggs - 1 r., cotton and iron have disappeared, so have wheat and peas, salt is 2 r. a pound, tobacco has disappeared, and a year ago was 1 r. 25 k., the monthly ration of sugar is a pound at 38 k., leather has disappeared. One feels that soon only air and water will be left.

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Marina Tsvetaeva

Borisoglebsky lane, 6, Moscow, Russian Empire

You can write ten volumes on Akhmatova’s little book - and there would be nothing more you could add. And you could only write one book - the size of Akhmatova’s book - on countless volumes of Bryusov’s complete set of works, and there will also be nothing more to say.

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