19 September 1917. Franz Kafka

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

Franz Kafka

Zürau

Рана так болит не потому, что она глубока и велика, а потому, что она застарелая. Когда старую рану снова и снова вскрывают, снова режут то место, которое уже множество раз оперировали, — вот это ужасно.

Для меня всегда непостижимо, что почти каждый, кто умеет писать, может объективировать в боли боль, что я, к примеру, могу в несчастье, может быть, с еще пылающей от несчастья головой сесть и кому-то письменно сообщить: я несчастен. Более того, я могу даже с различными вывертами, в зависимости от дарования, которому словно дела нет до несчастья, фантазировать на эту тему просто, или усложненно, или с целым оркестром ассоциаций. И это вовсе не ложь и не успокаивает боли, это просто благостный избыток сил в момент, когда боль явно истощила до самого дна все силы моей души, которую она терзает. Что же это за избыток?

В мирные дни ты не преуспеваешь, в дни войны ты истекаешь кровью.

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Pavlovsk. It was a beautiful autumn day; the vast park glittered with ember and gold, contrasting brilliantly against a clear,cold sky. My dear grandmother, the Queen of Greece, met me that day particular tenderness. After a light lunch Princess Helen took me to my rooms. Mlle. Hélène drew from the box the grey satin dress, the grey lace cup, and the rest of my wedding costume, and helped me to dress. With tears in her eyes, my grandmother also blessed me. Then on Prince John’s arm I went to the private chapel of the palace where Putiatin was waiting for me. After the ceremony we had tea and even sipped champagne, a rarity in those days. Friends had succeeded in securing for me and my husband another permit to see my father; we went almost immediately to Tsarskoie-Selo.

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Sergei Eisenstein

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John Reed

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There remains a phenomenon which puzzled foreign observers: the fact that the Central Executive Committees of the Soviets, the Central Army and Fleet Committees and the Central Committees of some of the Unions–notably, the Post and Telegraph Workers and the Railway Workers–opposed the Bolsheviki with the utmost violence. See more

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Nikita Okunev

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The Presidium of the Petrograd Soviet in its entirety, that is, Chkheidze, Ansimov, Gots, Dan, Skobelev, Tsereteli, and Chernov, has resigned its duties. The cause is the adoption of regulations dictated by the Bolsheviks by a majority vote of the Soviet. Yes, the Bolsheviks are gradually becoming stronger and stronger. All of Russia will soon have to reckon with them; otherwise, they will themselves reckon with everyone else, with all the “non-Bolsheviks.”

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