14 August 1917. Zinaida Gippius

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

Zinaida Gippius

Kislovodsk, Russian Empire

Russian affairs are still the same. As if there is less scrambling away from the Germans since the restoration of the death penalty at the front. But only “less”, for they restored it blindly, weakly, uncertainly, as if they were stealing. I think this is criminal.

Either do not restore it, or restore it in a way that every soldier knows with complete certainty: if you go ahead - maybe you will die, maybe not, not everyone is killed in a war; if you go back, arbitrarily, you will surely die.

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