23 August 1917. Alexandra Kollontai

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

Alexandra Kollontai

Vyborg female convict prison, Vyborg side, Russian Empire

Two wardresses at the door. Both are entirely weighed down with packages.

“What a delivery you’ve got today! It’s like an entire wholesale shop. You’ve got everything! White bread, sausages, canned goods, butter, eggs, honey…”

And there was a note: “Greetings from the sailors of the Baltic Navy to comrade Kollontai.”

That’s a miraculous delivery if I’ve ever seen one! So the Tsentrobalt hasn’t been defeated? The sailors’ spirits haven’t been broken? So the opposition hasn’t won? Then everything else will fall into place!

I was so overjoyed (as was my American cellmate) that I felt like bursting into leaps and skips around the cell.

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