12 September 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

Petrograd, Russian Empire

The “bloodletting” did not come to pass. The divisions sent by Kornilov and the “Petrograders” met outside Luga and in some other places. They lined up tentatively on opposite sides.

The “Kornilovers”, sent “to defend the Provisional Government” against an “enemy” also sent “to defend the Provisional Government”, were particularly unsure of themselves. So they stood around, thought a little; understanding nothing, they remembered only their agitprop lessons from the front: “fraternize with the enemy”. This, avidly, they did.

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