11 July 1917. Elizaveta Naryshkina

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

Elizaveta Naryshkina

The Great Tsarskosel'skiy Palace, Tsarskoe Selo, Russian Empire

Our troops continue to press forward. Kerensky is with them, trying to keep their martial spirits high. He greets the troops both on foot and mounted; sometimes he uses an automobile, at other times an airplane. His energy is amazing. He is the only man in the ranks of this awful government who has a head on his shoulders and a backbone. Nevertheless, the socialist-Bolsheviks are the real rulers.

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On this Tuesday afternoon I really was afraid that the Government would have to capitulate, as they were really at the mercy of the disloyal troops, had the latter had an ounce of courage and been properly led. The Cossacks and a few loyal regiments who came out to protect the Government saved the situation. As it was, Tchernoff, the Socialist Minister of Agriculture, was roughly handled by the disloyal troops and temporarily arrested. See more

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Nicholas II

Yesterday we lost 3,000 troops and about 30 vehicles. Word of God! The weather became cloudy and warm. After my walk I gave a history lesson to Alexis. We worked out there again and cut down three fir trees. After tea and until dinner I read.

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Alexandra Kollontai

Stockholm, Sweden

The Central Committee has delegated me as a representative for the Zimmerwald Conference which is taking place in Stockholm. I am to be gone for a short time, two weeks at the most, but I have no desire to leave. The inevitability of the incoming storm can be felt in the air. My reason for going is to get the left wing of the delegates to recognize the Bolshevik line. See more

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Konstantin Stanislavski

Moscow Art Theatre, 3 Kamergerskiy lane, Moscow, Russian Empire

We, artists, are intolerant when it comes to our art: we are factionalists. We also have our BlackHundreders, Octoberists, Cadets, Bolsheviks and so forth. It would seem that the more movements, ways, techniques and forms there are to creativity, the better for art, which must set itself an extremely broad range of goals. After all, art is called to create “the life of the human soul”. See more

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