1 June 1917. Alexander Kerensky → Central Rada of Ukraine

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

Alexander Kerensky Central Rada of Ukraine

57, Vladimirskaya str., Kiev, Russian Empire

My request to you is to be wise and calm. You cannot suspect me in anything chauvinistic... But right now I am in no position to respond to your questions. When I left Petrograd, this question had not yet been raised and I am completely unfamiliar with the positions of my comrades. We are in a difficult situation. I don't know in what sense you are talking about Ukraine’s autonomy.

I can categorically state that in the Provisional Government there is a wish to do everything that is possible, everything that they can consider possible and appropriate to take on, pertaining to Ukraine’s autonomy, based on their call of duty and conscience.

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Mykhailo Hrushevsky

However, you accept the full lawfulness of our demand for autonomy and that this demand needs to be fulfilled, because it doesn't impede the progress of the revolutionary movement. We are thinking of Russia as a federal republic...

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Alexander Blok

Petrograd, Russian Empire

Now I see and hear things that practically no one sees and hears, that few can observe once in a hundred years.

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Vladimir Chertkov

bookshop "Mediator", 1, Petrovsky lines, Moscow, Russian

The socialist minister, worshipped by the mob, and who signifies in its eyes the liberation of Russia from monarchical oppression, rides around the army, passionately appealing to the troops to start advancing. Everywhere he is met with usual expressions of mass excitement by the same people who several months ago greeted Nicholas II in the same way.

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Viktor Shklovsky

Kiev, Russian Empire

We arrived in Kiev. Over the city there flew a yellow-blue flag, Ukrainian soldiers were guarding the Duma, and on the streets there were rallies: Russians argued with Ukrainians, the Jews were sulking and waiting for a bearing. See more

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Nicholas II

Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire

During the morning there were a lot of storm clouds, but at 11 o'clock the sun came out and the weather became quite clear and immediately warmer. After my walk I gave Alexis a history lesson. During the day I diligently dug in the beds with the others. See more

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Marina Tsvetaeva

Borisoglebsky lane, 6, Moscow, Russian Empire

It is not love that causes my heart to beat, but my heartbeat causes love.

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Woodrow Wilson Robert Lansing

Washington, D.C., United States

I hope with all my heart that the new forces in Russia may be guided by the principles and objects it sets forth!

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Rurik Ivnev

Petrograd, Russian Empire

I am tormented when I read about ‘anarchy’, about the atrocities committed by soldiers, but here I am in carriage, where everyone coos about food and dresses of the ‘real bourgeoisie’ (unctuous, buxom and soft). See more

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Nikolai Berdyaev

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

Russian Revolution is a tragicomedy. It is the final act of a Gogol epic. And perhaps 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. Russia needs to break free from the power of Gogol’s ghost .

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