11 June 1917. Boris Nikolsky

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

Boris Nikolsky

57, Ofitserskaya street, Petrograd, Russian Empire

Gained by all sorts of tricks 18 pounds of flour; to get sugar is not yet possible, I will try tomorrow. If I get it, I'll buy a pood, or even more: there is a sugar hunger ahead.

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Aleksey Tolstoy

8, Malaya Molchanovka street, Moscow, Russian Empire

Everywhere you can hear: "Russia is enveloped in anarchy, a hundred billion public debt will lead us to poverty, the state will break up into pieces and perish." Why there is such cowardice, or they think that our revolution should be a continuous blessing, which immediately falls from the sky?

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Port Deposit, Maryland, United States

Stick to your schoolboy ideals as their guide through life and consider national service a privilege and not a duty.

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Elizaveta Naryshkina

Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire

I've read with excitement some news in newspapers that Jews went the Pope. The project on permission to return to Jerusalem, promising to treat with respect to Christian shrines. Prophecies are clearly coming true. Thy works are wonderful, O Lord! See more

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Vasily Kravkov

Pidhaitsi, Russian Empire

We, Russians, pretend to be equal with cultured nations, but we do not want to leave our barbarian skills and habits. How difficult it is for them to stop putting excrements on walls or latrines and keep self-cleanliness, respect the environment and all objects of everyday life!

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Marina Tsvetaeva

Borisoglebsky lane, 6, Moscow, Russian Empire

The blasphemy of comparing Christ and Nietzsche is not that Christ suffered more, but Nietzsche less. Blasphemy - obviously - in the disparity of planes.

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Osip Brik

ap. 42, Malaya Ital'yanskaya street, 7, Petrograd, Russian Empire

Сreated the left bloc of the "Union of Artists"

Also involved: Mayakovsky, Shklovsky, Meyerhold, Tatlin.

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Alfred Knox

Bukovina, Austria-Hungary

After supper on the 11th General Kornilov asked me to come into his study for a talk. The room, which also served as a bedroom for the General, was in the Palace of the Austrian Viceroys of the Bukovina, and looked out on a garden with a beautiful statue of the murdered Austrian Empress. I had talked in the same room during the preceding year with Generals Lechit- ski and Kaledin, two of Russia’s finest soldiers who had been already sacrificed to the hatred of the mob. See more

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The New York Times

The New York Times. June, 11 1917

London. Members of the British National Seamen's and Firemen's Union today seized and imprisoned Frederick W. Jowett, President of the Independent Labor Party, and James Ramsay Macdonald, Chairman of that party, both members of Parliament, who were about to sail for Petrograd. See more

10 June

Plekhanov on land ownership

The future Nobel Prize winner in literature was almost burned by peasants

"Thrones began to tremble, and the grandest and bloodiest of them all was the first to crumble"

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Why did the Russian Empire collapse

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