27 June 1917. The New York Times

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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

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Moscow. All members of the American diplomatic mission express great satisfaction with their visit to Moscow despite the torrid heat and the high pressure under which they worked. An illustration of the latter fact is that Mr. Root made four speeches in one day. What impressed the members most was the atmosphere of activity and keen desire materially to assist in the country which surrounds Moscow and affords so striking a contrast with Petrograd. Moscow, too, appears more patriotic and less susceptible to extremist and enemy influence, while such institutions as the Zemstvo Union and the War Industries Committee, with which Mr. Root and his colleagues were brought into intimate contact, are accomplishing real work for the salvation of Russia.

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Nicholas II

Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire

Dear MarieThird daughter of Nicholas II today is 18 years old. During the morning I took a walk with all the children; we went all around the park. The weather was wonderful. At 12 o'clock we went to prayer services. During the day Alix came out with us. We worked in the park for a while. We chopped down three large trees. See more

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Alexandra Kollontai

Hotel "Fenia", Helsingfors, Finland

The morning is sunny and wonderful. What a beautiful station. It’s clean. There are no sunflower seeds anywhere. No dust. A square. Hotel “Fenia”. A small room. An armchair. A carpet. I feel good-natured. I smile. I take a hot bath - a luxury. Coffee that I don’t make myself. Now it’s time to get to work.

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Marina Tsvetaeva

Borisoglebsky lane, 6, Moscow, Russian Empire

A poet is a person who sheds - one by one - all burdens. These burdens, shed by words, are then carried - as rhymed lines - by other people.

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Turns 18

Vasily Kravkov

Pidhaitsi, Russian Empire

We are expecting possible gas attacks from the Germans; and we have a great lack of gas masks, subject partly to insufficient supply, and partly to negligence of “free citizens” in their safekeeping. Germans retracted inward, abandoning some of their trench lines; they must be preparing a devil’s trap for us!

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Edvard Munch

paints "Field Work"

Ekely estate, Norway

26 June

Stalin vs. the Provisional Government

"We Russians, or more accurately, Bolsheviks, we are making history"

Deplorable state of the theatre

1916: Year in Review.

+19

in Petrograd

+23

in Moscow