25 September 1917. Alexander Blok

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 Blok

Petrograd, Russian Republic

For a while I have had no desire to make notes. Everything is going to pieces. There is a kind of sickness in people, and a large part of it is dishonesty. I squeak under anxiety and labour. There are no rays of light. It advances hunger and the cold. The war is not ending, although there are many rumours.

Yesterday my mother had a seizure.

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Eton College, United Kingdom

Perched solitary in my high room that looks one way upon the Southern buttresses of the chapel, golden with this autumn sunshine, and on the other side, right over the roof to the castle [Windsor] gigantic on its hills.

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Trud i volya

The departure of foreigners.

Regarding the mass exodus of foreigners - French and English from Russia. In the circles of the Provisional Government ii is viewed as regrettable, and that it is not surprising that, given the unbalanced situation in which we are in, foreigners prefer not to expose themselves to trouble. After all, unfortunately, it is not without reason that they say that in the event of the complete triumph of the Bolsheviks, representatives of foreign powers will prefer to leave Russia.

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Joseph Stalin

Petrograd, Russian Republic

In connection with the KornilovCommander in Chief of the Petrograd command - from 18 March 1917 conspiracy recently there has been a massive departure of foreigners from Russia. The mercenaries of the bourgeois press try to relate this phenomenon with the “rumours of peace” or even “the triumph of Bolshevism” in St.Petersburg and Moscow. See more

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Alexandra Feodorovna

Tobolsk, Russian Republic

It’s so strange to not see the wounded, to be without this job. On August 28th it would have been three years since we started working at the hospital, but our resignation has ruined everything. But I still hope that maybe, if there’s a lot of work and not enough people, they will bring us back. But it’s just a fantasy - it won’t come true. See more

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Petrograd, Russian Republic

On an ancient English steamboat (which we wouldn’t miss if it were drowned by Germans), I returned to Russia. We reached Bergen after a long fifteen hours, with dimmed lights, in life vests, boats at the ready.

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Eton College, United Kingdom

On the whole I am fairly happy, but I have decided that God never intended me to do any regular work.

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Vasily Rozanov

1, Polevaya street, Sergiev Posad, Russian Republic

It’s not the West who is hardworking, it’s the East. The West dallies. It works carelessly. But the moral labor is in the East - the East always prays to God for help.

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Nicholas II

Tobolsk, Russian Republic

The weather was warm and overcast. During the day I cut firewood, and the girls played on the wooden bridge with tennis balls.

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Paul Klee

works on «Interplay of Forces in a Lech River Landscape»

Summer school, Gersthofen, Bavaria, German Empire

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Harry Kessler

Army Command, Bad Kreuznach, German Empire

The Command tries to achieve annexation of Courland and Latvia to Prussia, and Lithuania as well if we manage to capture it. Courland and Latvia - as protectorates, Lithuania - as a personal junction. Lithuanian border should be shifted as far into the South as possible so that it can serve as a buffer should Poland launch any offensives. Poland should be as small as possible; perhaps Ukraine can become bigger.

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