11 May 1917. Elizaveta Naryshkina

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

Elizaveta Naryshkina

Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire

The political situation is distressing: the anarchist party of the socialists is gaining the upper hand. The army is in tatters and refuses to fight. We’re witnessing a grotesque fraternisation with the Germans, who’ll find out everything they need to know. The allies’ advance is being achieved at the cost of inhuman efforts. Enemy troops have been transferred from our front to counter them.

We’re jettisoning our allies and talking about a separate peace instead of helping them by launching an offensive of our own. If we break with the allies, we are lost. It would be curtains for Russia, and we would be put to shame before the whole world.

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