13 June 1917. Maxim Gorky

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

Maxim Gorky

23, Kronversky ave., Petrograd, Russian Empire

Good, honest books – the best instruments of culture – have all but completely disappeared from the book market. A number of slanderous and dirty newspapers have sprung up encouraging people to treat one another with hostility and hate, supposedly while trying to answer the question of who is responsible for the collapse of Russia.

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The New York Times

Petrograd. American diplomatic and engineering commissions have arrived to Petrograd almost simultaneously.

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Marc Chagall

Zaolshe, Vitebskaya guberniya, Russian Empire

At his dacha

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Vasily Shulgin

the editorial office of "Kievlyanin" on the corner of Karavaevskaya and Kuznechnaya, Kiev, Russian Empire

In one of Jules Verne’s novels, a Frenchman from Marseilles says: “I am twice French, because I am from Marseilles.”
Imitating him, we could say: “We are twice Russian, because we are from Kiev – the mother of Russian cities, because Moscow and Petrograd are colonies on Kiev, and not vice versa”.

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Maria Feodorovna

Ai-Todor, Crimea, Russian Empire

There was another incredibly humiliating event awaiting us that day. The commission arrived from Sevastopol and took us all to all to a kind of court at Svitsky house, where each of us individually had to answer questions relating to the searches. To tell the truth, I was so outraged by this new, and unexpectedly vile trick, that as I entered the room and saw them sitting behind the long table like judges, ready to question me like some thief or murderer, I was shaking with indignation and fury. But, fortunately, Sandro was with me. See more

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the store of the Russian Music Publishing House, Moscow, 6, Kuznetsky Most, Moscow, Russian Empire

I’m living in Yessentuki, where I came to be treated. I feel rather awful.

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12 June

The famous anarchist-prince Kropotkin has returned from many years of emigration

"It seems that everything is getting worse and worse"

Soldiers play a funereal march at Tolstoy’s grave

From one revolution to another

Russia in 1917

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in Petrograd

in Moscow