22 August 1917. Zinaida Gippius with Boris Savinkov

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 with Boris Savinkov

Sergievskaya 83, Petrograd, Russian Empire

Kerensky has certainly lost all sense of understanding. He is under cross influences. He opens himself almost to anything, almost like a woman. His domestic ways have also corrupted him. He has established (and he lives in the Winter Palace!) “court” orders, which adhere to miserable philistinism, parvenu. He has never been clever, but it seems that even ingenious intuition has abandoned him when festive, honey-feasting days have passed, and were replaced by severe (oh, how severe!) weekdays.

And he has become intoxicated… not from power, but from “success” in a Chaliapin manner. And then there’s the feeling that he is “going down”. He does not see people. Suppose he did not have this before, and now he is completely blind (now that he needs to choose people!). He even took Savinkov for a “faithful servant both in body and in soul” - only. Just like a “servant”, he took him away, hastily - away from the front. (It seems that they were together during the June offensive). And he became agitated, worried when he noticed that Savinkov was not without a keenness… He began to suspect him… of what?

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