8 July 1917. Rurik Ivnev

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

Rurik Ivnev

What rubbish! And I wanted to love “humanity.” People are so nasty, so nasty. How great it would have been to live among dogs or horses. If you think about it: high sky, fluffy clouds, it has rained recently. A wide country road. On its sides—huts. And in every hut there are dogs. They drink milk, and, like people, eat fried potatoes, puppies are playing on porches, and I go to pick mushrooms with three dogs.

God! God! What happiness! And not a single human face around. And there should be no mirror, to not see my own.

Or to live with horses. It does not matter with whom, as long as it is not with a human.

There are two old dogs walking towards us. They are returning from a walk, arm in arm, affectionately wagging their tails. Here is the forest. It is clean and nice here. There are no papers, cigarette buds, cans from canned foods, husks—in other words, all that nastiness and filth that permanently accompanies man.

Here are more dogs. They must be a family: two big, furry ones and a whole pack of tiny, playing, jumping, barking ones. They affectionately sniff at us and walk past, without measuring us with greedy, calculating, piercing, inveterately lying, angry eyes.

In the forest it is cool, smells of pine, and from the dog village you hear barking, muffled by distance. And there are no people, no people, most importantly, there are no people…

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