15 September 1917. Alexander Kolchak

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

Alexander Kolchak

Washington, D.C., United States

Upon our arrival in Halifax, we were met by a naval officer—naval agent Mishtovt, who told us that in Montreal, we would be met by representatives of the Naval Ministry of the United States, that a special wagon has been prepared for us, that we are here as guests of the American nation, and that we need worry neither about lodging, nor about transportation, for the American government has taken all this upon itself.

Thus, in total comfort, we traveled to New York and to Washington. Upon our arrival in Washington, I made a visit first thing to our ambassador, Bakhmetyev, and to the naval minister, to his assistant, to the minister of foreign affairs, to the minister of war… In a word, to all those figures I would run into later on.

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Zinaida Gippius

Petrograd, Russian Republic

Kerensky is a mad autocrat and now also a Bolshevik slave. All Bolsheviks can be broken down into several groups::
1) witless fanatics;
2) fools and swines;
3) rascals and German spies.

Nicholas II was a stubborn autocrat… Both situations have only one end - failure.

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Nicholas II

Tobolsk, Russian Republic

The weather was clear and warm. I began to walk in the fenced yard in front of the house; it was better here than in the damp garden because here the sun shines all day. I climbed with the children on the roof of the greenhouse. In the evening I read aloud The Ninth Rampart by Danilevsky.

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Joseph Stalin

Petrograd, Russian Republic

Finally, we have a “new” (completely new!) government of five. Kerensky, Tereschenko, Verkhovskiy, Verderevskiy, and Nikitin, the “Directorate” of five—this is the “new” power, “elected” by Kerensky, approved by Kerensky, accountable to Kerensky and independent from workers, peasants, and soldiers.

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Mikhail Larionov with Nikolay Gumilyov

made a portrait of Gumilyov

Paris, France

14 September

Republic! Russia has proclaimed a new form of government

American writer John Read comes to Petrograd

Kornilov is arrested

Map of the Royal dynasties of Europe

Romanovs dangerous liaisons

1916: Year in Review.

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in Petrograd

in Moscow