26 August 1917. Leonid Andreyev

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

Leonid Andreyev

Vammelsuu, Finland

Nights and days are hot, dry, and even wonderful, and in politics it's the same: drowning Russia is floundering and letting out bubbles. And on the shore, the spectators and those commiserating: descend, chum, to the bottom.

Currently, they are floundering in Moscow, at a conference, and Bolshevik Veresayev starts a protest. And everyone expects fights: a fight in Helsingfors over the Sejm, a fight with Ukraine and pitiful Vinnichenko, a fight amongst themselves. A fight in general. But, nonetheless, Russia is not going to drown in this dirty puddle, even though it will get filthy as a pig.

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Pierre Pascal

Petrograd, Russian Empire

The spectacle of the street. A line forms at the tobacconist: then soldiers procure cigarettes by the case, settle on the sidewalk, and start to sell them, individually, to pedestrians. Very resourceful. “Revolutionary People,” an evening newspaper of the socialist revolutionaries, in response publishes a heated protest by a war veteran (a comfrey, a person from the trenches). See more

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Alexandra Feodorovna

Tobolsk, Russian Empire

I looked around this house and the other one, which is completely unprepared. I’ve been unpacking things and putting our rooms in order. Then I rested. There was a thunderstorm in the afternoon.

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Nicholas II

Tobolsk, Russian Empire

We got up a little early, and the last things were quickly packed. At 10:30 I went with the children, the commandant and the officers to our new dwelling. We surveyed the entire house from basement to roof. We occupied the 2nd. floor and the sitting room beneath it. At 12 o'clock the furniture arrived, and a priest sprinkled all the rooms with holy water. See more

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Zinaida Gippius

Sergievskaya 83, Petrograd, Russian Empire

A conference in Moscow has started (there—a partial strike, here—quiet). Kerensky gave a long speech. If you don’t consider his acquired tied tongue, his usual speech: full of pathos, and in parts not so bad. But already inopportune, for it was not businesslike, but festive.

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Elizaveta Kuzmina-Karavaeva

Gemete estate, Anapa, Russian Empire

The feeling of overall confusion and anticipation of a catastrophe overtook me with a particular force in the hall of the Bolshoi Theater. See more

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25 August

With his bosses gone, the poet Blok goes for a swim instead of working

"All of Moscow was living like a passenger at a railway station, waiting for the third bell"

Wilson welcomes the State Meeting in Moscow

1916: Year in Review.

+16

in Petrograd

+17

in Moscow