31 May 1917. Nicholas II

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

Nicholas II

Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire

It was such a nice day. It was very fresh after yesterday's rain. The whole park had become very green. The weather was wonderful during my walk, after a geography lesson with Alexis. During the day I again worked very hard cutting the grass and preparing the new flower beds. Until dinner we took a ride on the bicycles. During the evening it became quite cool, 9 degrees.

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Elizaveta Naryshkina

The Great Tsarskosel'skiy Palace, Tsarskoe Selo, Russian Empire

The Kronstadt sailors have rebelled, arrested officers and seized gun-armed ships as well as hatching plans to bombard Petrograd and take the royal couple to Kronstadt!!! Some orator was hurriedly dispatched there to make speeches. This is now their only weapon! How humiliating it is to see Tolstoy’s ridiculous theories becoming reality and German spies like Lenin and co. revolutionising the country. The government ceases to be a government when it wields no power.

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Nikolai Berdyaev

Bol'shoy Vlasyevskiy Lane, 4, Moscow, Russian Empire

The “bourgeois” revolution currently underway in Russia is not a class revolution but a supra-class, all-people’s revolution with national- and state-level objectives. But if a “proletarian” revolution were now to occur in Russia, it would be an exclusively class-based revolution of an anti-national and anti-state character, and it would lead to violent dictatorship followed, in accordance with immutable law, by Caesarism.

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Alexander Zamaraev

Totma, Vologodskaya guberniya, Russian Empire

Sowed flax in the morning. Finished all the spring sowing. The weather is very good.

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Aristarkh Lentulov

completes his Landscape with a Red House

27, Bol'shoy Kozihinskiy lane, Moscow, Russian Empire

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Alexander Kolchak

Nikolayev, Russian Empire

I left Sevastopol for a while and travelled to Nikolaev to see the ships being constructed in the town’s factories. There I learned about the state of affairs in the shipyards. Everything was in fact grinding to a complete halt, with construction threatening to cease completely.

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The New York Times

Two hundred negroes from Harlem's colored colony near 135th Street and Lenox Avenue, fought yesterday with reserves from the West 135th Street Police Station to prevent the arrest of a negro who had attacked a policeman with a razor in attempting to resist arrest. See more

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in Petrograd

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