13 May 1917. Leonid Andreyev

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

Leonid Andreyev

1, Moyka embankment, Petrograd, Russian Empire

When the whole world curses 'treacherous Russia', I will not curse her. How can I curse my own mother? I will be with her to eke out her bitter existence and only alone I will think 'we unhappy people, we unhappy people!' And perhaps no such Russia is needed at all? Is it possible that this is simply an obsolete term, which time will erase? Life is ineradicable.

There will not be 'Russia', but another, and 'young life will play at the entrance to the coffin'. But all the same, in the end, does it matter whose life it is: Russian or young German, the main thing is that life will remain, fields will remain and rivers will remain. And whose boats will travel the rivers - Russian or German - what does it matter? The German boat is even more useful. And people do not all disappear - one hundred million Vasilievs and Petrovs are not to be immediately annihilated. People will adapt! And what if there is, in fact, no need for Russia?

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Alexander Blok

57, Ofitserskaya street, Petrograd, Russian Empire

A careful reading of my books and poems yesterday and today convinces me that I am a worthy writer.

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Alexander Kerensky

Petrograd, Russian Empire

After thinking in my quiet office in the Ministry of Justice, I first considered it impossible for me to stop participating in the government’s main political decisions. The political situation inside the government coalition was so unstable that it was impossible to let things go on their own. Coming to this conclusion, I was reaching for the phone, intending to report my refusal, but then I suddenly realized the work in front of me, the government, Russia, if we enact a "truce." See more

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Elizaveta Naryshkina

Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire

I am consoled by reading prophecies about the end of the world. I, too, have come to the end of my life and I give God the remaining sad days of my existence, begging him to free my soul from all earthly attachments.

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Nadezhda Krupskaya with Vladimir Lenin

Elizarov's apt. 24, 52 Shirokaya Street., Petrograd, Russian Empire

The All-Russian April conference was held. 151 delegated attended it, a new Central Committee was elected during the conference, important questions were discussed - about the current situation, about the war, about the preparation of the Third International, about the national situation, the agrarian situation, and the party program. I particularly remember Ilyich’s speech about the current situation. See more

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Pathe News

Even children are boxing!

Alfred Knox

Petrograd, Russian Empire

I lunched with Thornhill to meet poor Lechitski. The old man quite touched me when he gave me greetings from his 9th Army, I can’t help loving these people ; they are all heart. He told us of how poor Miller was arrested. The XXVIth Corps objected to him because he was “ exacting.”

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Maurice Paleologue

10, Kutuzova embankment, Petrograd, Russian Empire

After several farewell visits at various points on the English Quay, I passed Falconet's monument of Peter the Great. It was bound to be my last chance of seeing this superb evocation of the Tsar legislator and conqueror, a masterpiece of equestrian statuary; so I had my car stopped. See more

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12 May

The Provisional Government in crisis

The Minister of War resigns

Map of the Royal dynasties of Europe

Romanovs dangerous liaisons

in Petrograd

in Moscow