14 July 1917. Boris Nikolsky

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

Boris Nikolsky

Ofitserskaya street, Petrograd, Russian Empire

It is becoming so difficult to live—I cannot even convey it. Prices, people, queues, portions—everything is eerie, frightening. And there is so much that is entirely unobtainable, which is even more frightening. And the harvest so far is barely middling. What on earth will happen in the winter and especially in the spring?

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Nicholas II

Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire

The day became excellent. I walked around the whole park while the children cut hay and played in the haystacks. We worked during the day in the garden. We came across some dry trees and fallen timber from the storm of 1914, hidden in the bushes and high grass. See more

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Olga Rozanova Aleksei Kruchenykh

ap. 38, 10, Sadovo-karetnaya street, Moscow, Russian Empire

I am only fond now of formal and emotional poems, insofar as their meanings are artfully buried away.

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Rurik Ivnev

Kamennoostrovskiy avenue, Petrograd, Russian Empire

When you walk with your face turned towards the glowing, rosy sky (to the rising or setting sun), verses are easily composed.

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Nadezhda Teffi

Petrograd, Russian Empire

On a daily basis, a figure would appear on the balcony of Kschesinskaya’s house, wave its hands around, and scream in a husky voice. After having screamed for a couple of hours, it would go inside to warm up. A different figure would replace it. All of these figures carried the shared title “Lenin.”

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Mathilde Kschessinska

P. N. Vladimirov's apart., 10, Alekseevskaya str., Petrograd, Russian Empire

Passing by my house, I saw Kollontai walking in my ermine coat. As I was told, she also used some of my other things, but I do not know if that is true.

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Anatoliy Lunacharskiy

apt.17, 25/20, Lakhtinskaya, Petrograd, Russian Empire

Mayakovsky is extremely talented, a young half-giant infected with an ebullient energy, and in whose eyes you sense direction; upwards and to the left.

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Elizaveta Naryshkina

Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire

Finland wants complete independence from Russia, but Wilhelm is planning an offensive on Petrograd through Finland and its skerries. If Finland separates from us, that will be the end of the capital and the Baltic Sea.

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13 July

The new Matisse

Freud scolds Jung

Kerensky addresses Ukraine

Map of the Royal dynasties of Europe

Romanovs dangerous liaisons

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in Petrograd

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in Moscow