2 July 1917. Maria Feodorovna

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

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.

I returned home completely without effort, and my poor little baby Chi-fu felt worse and could not recover herself for a long time, an unhappy dog. Good news was also coming from the front, our troops switched to a victorious offensive, took 10,000 prisoners.

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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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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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