13 July 1917. Alexander Kerensky

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

Alexander Kerensky

Kiev, Russian Empire

Returning to the front, I am glad to bring a greeting from the men of the land, from the rural population of the Ukraine. I am particularly gladdened by the greetings expressed in the fraternal Ukrainian language. For two hundred years, your language has been considered criminal, and has been subject to all manner of persecutions.

Now the way lies open for the Ukrainian people to achieve autonomy within the family of fraternal peoples which will be created by the great (so I believe) federative Russian republic. And I believe that both in the rear and in the front, all citizens will forget everything that divides them, and come together in a single impulse, in a passionate, irresistible desire to save Russia.

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Alexander Blok

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Sigmund Freud

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Jung’s patient sent me his new work about unconscious processes, so that I could change my mind about his noble self. It dates back to 1917, but is nothing more than a clumsy retelling of the same thing that he accused me of.

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Nikolai Berdyaev

Bol'shoy Vlasyevskiy Lane, 4, Moscow, Russian Empire

I’m not a fan of Plekhanov, and his ideas are alien to me. But now I feel a great deal of respect for him and he touches me. He could be the most popular and glorified man in Russia, he is the long-time leader of Russian Social Democracy. To achieve this he would have had to become just a bit of a demagogue, to embark on the path of flattery and indulgence to mass instincts.

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Maria Feodorovna with Alexandra of Denmark

Ai-Todor, Crimea, Russian Empire

To my indescribable joy, after four months of melancholy waiting, I at last received a whole package of wonderful letters from my beloved Alix. When I saw the familiar handwriting I felt as if I had come back to life and become a new person. I imagined what pleasure I would experience over the next few days as I read the letters.

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The New York Times

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