8 June 1917. Alexander Blok

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 Blok

57, Ofitserskaya street, Petrograd, Russian Empire

Yesterday the commandant of the Tsar's residence spoke in detail about what the royal family is doing now. And it is hard. In general, everyone is right; the Cadets are right, Gorky with his "two souls" (passive East and active West) is right, and there is an ugly truth in Bolshevism also.

I see nothing ahead, although I do not lose optimism. All of them, both "old" and "new", reside in our hearts- in mine at least. I am suspended in the air; no land now, and no sky. For all that, Petersburg is again unusually beautiful.

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