6 September 1917. Anna Vyrubova with Alexander Kerensky

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

Anna Vyrubova with Alexander Kerensky

Petrograd, Russian Empire

At 11 o’clock, just as I was going to bed, a commissar with two “adjutants” arrived from Kerensky. He demanded that I get up and read some papers. I quickly covered myself with a shawl and went out to meet them. There were three, Jews judging by their appearance. They said that I, as a counterrevolutionary, was to be exiled abroad in 24 hours. I composed myself, although, under the irony of their gaze, my hand was shaking when I signed the papers.

I implored them to delay the journey by another 24 hours, as there was no way I could get ready in this time: I had neither money nor the permission to take anyone with me. The policemen handled me like a dangerous counter-revolutionary. The director of our hospital, Reshetnikov, and the nurse Veselova were called on to travel with me.

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