15 July 1917. Nikolai Berdyaev

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

Nikolai Berdyaev

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

We still have no genuine parties with realistic political programmes. The slogans used by the parties are entirely artificial, and it is not clear to whom they are addressed; they are not taken seriously by those who proclaim them.

For instance, what real meaning does the slogan “All land for the Working People” have at municipal elections, where everything is connected to the practical provision of urban amenities?

The city Duma is not intended to decide the question of land for the peasants, and it has no right to legislative power. And the great mass of people – city-dwellers in domestic service, for the most part - that has been seduced by the slogan “land and freedom”, has been misled.

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Maria Feodorovna

Ai-Todor, Crimea, Russian Empire

As usual, I went to church. The time has been changed—all the clocks have been shifted one hour forward. I slept badly last night thanks to those vile mosquitoes—one more bit of sheer torture on top of all my other miseries and misfortunes.

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Pierre Gilliard

Alexander Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire

Nothing new in our captivity. The only distraction is going out. It is very hot, and for some days Alexis Nikolaevitch has been bathing in the pond round the children's island. It is a great joy to him.

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Elizaveta Naryshkina

Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire

Those coming from the front talk about the arrogance of the soldiers, it is unthinkable.

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Provisional Government

Winter palace, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire

Every citizen of the Russian state is guaranteed freedom of conscience. Correspondingly, a citizen’s enjoyment of civil and political rights does not depend on his religious confession, and no one can be persecuted or restricted in any of his rights due to his persuasion in matters of faith.

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Lili Dehn

Alexander Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire

As I approached the Palace I became sensible of an eerie change, both in it and in its immediate surroundings. I stopped to consider in what the change consisted. Then knowledge dawned upon me. Tsarkoe was a dead place. Its windows were almost hidden by the straggling branches of the undipped trees, grass grew between the stones of its silent courtyard, and I instantly likened it to a famous Russian picture, “Le Chateau Oublie.” It was indeed a forgotten castle! See more

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Alexander Kerensky

Petrograd, Russian Empire

Upon arriving in Petrograd on urgent business for a few days, I realized that the most serious and decisive events of our time are moving ever closer. In the two months of my ceaseless travels around the front, the political atmosphere in Petrograd has changed drastically.

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