27 June 1917. Vasily Kravkov

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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

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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Alexandra Kollontai

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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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