11 November 1917. George Buchanan

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11 November

Today:

Leonid Andreyev: "There has been a revolution, but a revolution that has turned everything on its head"

Petrograd is waiting for Kerensky’s troops

Buchanan: "We ought to endeavour to gain and keep the control of the war to which our strength entitles us, using that strength to sustain our Allies without allowing them to lose their self-reliance."

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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 Republic (British Embassy)

The last two days have passed without disturbance, and yesterday it was generally believed that Kerensky's troops would be here by now and that the situation would be liquidated.

Acting under this belief, the Committee of Public Safety encouraged the cadets of the military schools to occupy the Central Telephone Office and to act on the offensive in other parts of the town. The situation has in consequence once more become acute, and there is firing all over the town.

Our guard of eight cadets distinguished themselves the other day by appropriating a case of whiskey and a case of claret belonging to the secretaries. Most of them were ill the next day, and some were sick in the hall. So far from their protecting us, it is rather we who are protecting them. Luckily an extra guard of Polish soldiers with an officer was given us on Friday, and we have managed to send the cadets safely home dressed up as civilians.

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Leonid Andreyev

Vammelsuu, Finland

There has been a revolution, but a revolution that has turned everything on its head. Everything is upside down. The day comes, and this is the picture that greets us: everything is upside down. And they tell us this is how we must live. See more

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Zamyatin‘s apartment, 36, Mokhovaya street, Petrograd, Russian Republic

Nobody knows anything. Cut off from the world. There is no battle. Silence, once in a while one can see the blue sky. Telephones for private conversations are off. There is rumour of a railway strike. See more

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Maria Feodorovna

Ai-Todor, Crimea, Russian Republic

As before, I have been getting up late, but every morning, I am visited by my dear children and grandchildren. Later I went out onto my balcony again. The weather is beautiful, but nothing brings me joy anymore. I suddenly felt ill and for some reason I was sick. See more

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Alexander Kerensky

Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Republic

By the morning we should have been in Petrograd, but we had only gotten as far as Tsarskoye Selo. That same day an anti-Bolshevik revolt broke out in the capital. At four in the afternoon I was called to the telephone. See more

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John Reed

Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Republic

We strolled toward the Imperial Palaces, along the edge of the vast, dark gardens, their fantastic pavilions and ornamental bridges looming uncertainly in the night, and soft water splashing from the fountains. See more

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Vladimir Lenin

The political question is now merging with the military question

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Winston Churchill

London, United Kingdom

We ought to endeavour to gain and keep the control of the war to which our strength entitles us, using that strength to sustain our Allies without allowing them to lose their self-reliance. We should be careful not to dissipate our strength or melt it down to the average level of exhausted nations. See more

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Edvard Munch

Ekely estate, Norway

works on «Conversation»

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Nicholas II

Tobolsk, Russian Republic

We got up at 7 o'clock when it was still completely dark and at 8 o'clock we went to Mass. After the second tea we took a walk. The weather was mild and overcast, I wrote to Olga [Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, sister of Nicholas]. I began the tenth volume of Leskov. Today we repaired a collection of things donated by the people for use of the army on the front.

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10 November

Zinaida Gippius is concerned that a civil war might begin

Rumor has it, cadets are tortured in the Peter and Paul Fortress

1916: Year in Review.

From one revolution to another

Russia in 1917

in Petrograd

in Moscow