20 September 1917. Nikolay Gumilyov

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

Nikolay Gumilyov

department Creuse, France

With news of the revolution having reached Paris, a number of Russian newspapers appeared of the most extreme nature. The newspapers, as well as individuals who emigrated, having gained access to the mass of soldiers, fed them with Bolshevik Leninist-Makhaev propaganda, at times even giving false information, drawn from fragmentary telegrams in French newspapers.

In the absence of any official news or command, all this caused unrest among the soldiers. The latter desired an immediate return to Russia and expressed indiscriminate hostility towards the officers. On the 1st of July, as per the will of the soldiers, the troops were gathered from their various towns to the La Curtin camp. The rallies began here, in which the first regiment and its leaders sought to seize a leading role.

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