27 June 1917. Grand Duchess Maria

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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

Turns 18

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Nicholas II

Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire

Dear MarieThird daughter of Nicholas II today is 18 years old. During the morning I took a walk with all the children; we went all around the park. The weather was wonderful. At 12 o'clock we went to prayer services. During the day Alix came out with us. We worked in the park for a while. We chopped down three large trees. See more

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Alexandra Kollontai

Hotel "Fenia", Helsingfors, Finland

The morning is sunny and wonderful. What a beautiful station. It’s clean. There are no sunflower seeds anywhere. No dust. A square. Hotel “Fenia”. A small room. An armchair. A carpet. I feel good-natured. I smile. I take a hot bath - a luxury. Coffee that I don’t make myself. Now it’s time to get to work.

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Marina Tsvetaeva

Borisoglebsky lane, 6, Moscow, Russian Empire

A poet is a person who sheds - one by one - all burdens. These burdens, shed by words, are then carried - as rhymed lines - by other people.

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Vasily Kravkov

Pidhaitsi, Russian Empire

We are expecting possible gas attacks from the Germans; and we have a great lack of gas masks, subject partly to insufficient supply, and partly to negligence of “free citizens” in their safekeeping. Germans retracted inward, abandoning some of their trench lines; they must be preparing a devil’s trap for us!

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Edvard Munch

paints "Field Work"

Ekely estate, Norway

26 June

Stalin vs. the Provisional Government

"We Russians, or more accurately, Bolsheviks, we are making history"

Deplorable state of the theatre

1917. Zombies, drugs, and progress

Why did the Russian Empire collapse

From one revolution to another

Russia in 1917

+19

in Petrograd

+23

in Moscow