18 August 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

Tura river, Russian Empire

During the trip along the Tura, I slept very little. Alix and I had one very uncomfortable cabin, and all the girls were together in the fifth cabin down the corridor. Further toward the bow was a good sitting room, and a small cabin with a piano. Second Class is under us, and this is where all the soldiers from the First Regiment who are traveling with us stay

. All day we went topside, and stayed in the pleasant air. The weather was overcast but dry and warm. In front of us was a mine sweeper and behind another steamship with the soldiers from the 2nd and 4th Infantry Regiments and the rest of the baggage. We stopped two hours to load firewood. Toward night it got cold. We have our kitchen staff here on the steamship. Everybody went to sleep early.

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Pierre Gilliard

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Alexandra Feodorovna

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Valentin Kataev

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17 August

General Kornilov is up to something

Kolchak is stunned by London

Poet Alexander Blok goes swimming between interrogations (he has a part-time job at the Commission of Inquiry)

Map of the Royal dynasties of Europe

Romanovs dangerous liaisons

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in Petrograd

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in Moscow