2 July 1917. The New York Times

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

The New York Times

The completed programs for Fourth of July demonstrations all over the city of New York has been announced by the Mayor’s Independence Day Committee. Without noise or clamor or flare of skyrockets, Fourth of July will be celebrated as a day of solemn consecration. There will be ceremonies, rallies and games, but the spirit permeating the occasion will be marked by a deeper regard for the significance of the historic declaration which gave America her freedom. Chairman of the Mayor’s Committee James Gordon Battle said: “Let us all united to maintain the flame of patriotism in our community, to pledge our faith to our noble allies and to give the whole world an abounding proof that the heart of America, which is New York, is engaged in this war and it determined to see it through to a triumphant conclusion.”

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Korney Chukovsky

3, Pogranichnaya street, Kuokkala, Russian Empire

I don’t sleep at all. For the second night in a row am reading Stendhal’s “The Red and the Black,” a ravishing, thick, two-volume novel. It stole the whole morning from me. In annoyance that it took me away from work, I threw it aside. Otherwise you cannot tear yourself away from it—you need to make a heroic gesture. See more

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Natalia Goncharova Nikolay Gumilyov

Paris, rue Galilée, 54, hotel Galilee

To Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilyov in memory of our first meeting in Paris. God protect you, like a gardener a rose bush in the garden.

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Nicholas II

The weather was comparatively cool. The day went as usual. Before dinner itself came a good piece of news about the beginning of the assault on the southwestern front. After two days of artillery fire, our army took the hostile position and took into captivity about 170 officers and 10,000 troops, six vehicles and 24 machine guns.

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Maxim Gorky

23, Kronversky ave., Petrograd, Russian Empire

Leave Petrograd—it is a rather pleasant dream, and I am ready to go to Kamchatka, to Solovky, to the devil! In general, I live in a spiritual contradiction with myself and don’t see any other outlet but cultural work.

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Alexandre Benois

Yablonovka, Russian Empire

They’re no longer giving the milk out in the promised quantities. In the “bar house” there are six jewish families who consume an immense amount of milk, and as a result are being threatened by the police – it is, in a word, an uproar. See more

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Alexander Blok

57, Ofitserskaya street, Petrograd, Russian Empire

What right do we (the brains of the country) have, with our lousy bourgeois distrust, to insult the intelligent, calm and knowledgeable revolutionaries? Nerves are highly strung. Again, I would not be surprised if they slaughter us in the name of the order.

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Maria Feodorovna

Ai-Todor, Crimea, Russian Empire

She was foolish in the extreme heat to go with her daughters to the beach to see how Sandro and the boys are bathing. See more

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Ilya Ehrenburg

Paris, France

Finally, I’ve been given a passport on behalf of the Provisional Government; but I still had to obtain a visa. It was the first time I’d heard that word, before the war there were no visas. The day came where I had all three visas – English, Norwegian and Swedish. See more

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Zinaida Gippius

Kislovodsk, Russian Empire

The cynically naïve egoism and dull ignorance (“I’m young, I want to live, I don’t want to go to war”) of deserters is caused by the Bolsheviks preaching, which is of course worse than any bellicose sentiments incited by the Tsar’s club. I’ll say it openly – it’s worse. The animal reveals a lack of conscience.

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1 July

The offense has begun

Is Russia facing a lean year?

And what if Russia has lain too long frozen in the mire of slavery? What if she froze solid, and now, having thawed out, is decomposing rather than coming back to life?

1917. Zombies, drugs, and progress

Why did the Russian Empire collapse

1916: Year in Review.

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