2 June 1917. Alexandra Kollontai

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

Alexandra Kollontai

Kollontai's rented flat, Peski, Petrograd, Russian Empire

In the navy, a new menace is rising against the Provisional Government: in Helsinki, in Kronstadt, ships are becoming “infected with Bolshevism.” Our newspaper, “The Wave,” is becoming an active center of Bolshevism.

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Alexander Blok

57, Ofitserskaya street, Petrograd, Russian Empire

No, there’s no need to fantasize about a golden age, to clench one’s teeth and descend anew into one’s demonic dreams.

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Korney Chukovsky

3, Pogranichnaya street, Kuokkala, Russian Empire

How I envy people who have money!

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Alexander Guchkov

Petrograd, Russian Empire

A whole world of ideas and belief systems separates us, the non-socialists, from people “on the other coast.” It is not so much private and class-based interests that divide us, but a different understanding of the structure of human society and of the tasks of government.

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Nicholas II

Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire

It was an ideally warm day, with no breeze. I took a walk for an hour and a quarter during the morning with Alexis. During the day I worked with the others in the vegetable garden, and we rested and took a ride in the canoe. At 6:30 we went to vespers. The aroma from the garden was wonderful while sitting at the window. In the evening I began to read aloud Le fauteuil hante.

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Elizaveta Naryshkina

Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire

The single cultural asset our unhappy masses had was religious feeling, thanks to which many of them became heroes and saints. Now that religious feeling has been stripped away from them, the masses are returning to a state of nature and descending to the level of livestock.

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George Buchanan Government

Petrograd, Russian Empire

This situation in Petrograd is as bad as ever, which is hardly to be wondered at seeing that there is no proper police force to maintain order; and the uncertain attitude of the troops causes the Government considerable anxiety. There are however, signs of a reaction, not in favour of a monarchy, but of a stable Government capable of maintaining order and putting an end to the existing anarchy that is steadily spreading over the country. See more

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1 June

Russians argued with the Ukrainians, the Jews were sulking and waiting for a beating

Kerensky talks to Ukrainian politicians

"The bleakest and most hopeless in it is what it took from Gogol. In whatever is in it from Dostoyevsky, there are more glimmers of light"

1916: Year in Review.

+15

in Petrograd

+13

in Moscow