26 July 1917. Alexander Blok

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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 Blok

57, Ofitserskaya street, Petrograd, Russian Empire

I will never take power, I will never join a party, I will never make a choice, I have nothing to be proud of, I don’t understand anything.

I can whisper and sometimes—scream: leave me alone, it is not my business, when revolution is followed by reaction, when people, who don’t know how to live, who have lost their taste for life, first, surrender, and then get scared, then they start scaring and terrifying other people, who have not yet lost the taste, who have not yet “lived” in “civilisation,” who terribly want to live like the rich.

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