30 September 1917. Trud i volya

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

Trud i volya

The Bolsheviks are retreating.

Before the Council at the Petrograd Union of the Workers and Solders’ Deputies the Bolsheviks have prevailed and, as is their wont, have now displayed the height of insolence. They have chosen Lenin and Zinoviev, who are hiding from the court being accused of treason, as their representatives to the Council.

The insolence is really unprecedented. Persons are accused of treason and of organizing civilian slaughter and they are being chosen as representatives to the Council on the organization of power in Russia. This time the Bolsheviks got ahead of themselves and had to retreat.

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Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich

Gatchina, Russian Republic

I've spent the whole day on the couch.

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Russkoe Slovo

Moscow, Russian Republic

"Muir and Mirrielees" is going into liquidation and will cease to exist on October 1st. The official reason for closing the company is lack of items for sale and inability to acquire them.

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Vasily Gurko

Arkhangelsk, Russian Republic

The British authorities in Arkhangelsk have been very kind to me.

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Erich Maria Remarque

St. Vinzenz-Hospital, Duisburg, Deutschland

Well, there’s nothing good about being wounded. However, I have taken steps to stay in hospital for longer. I flirted with the daughter of the hospital inspector, and got myself a job as a clerk in the police department. Very cunning.

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Pierre Pascal

Petrograd, Russian Republic

Today is the birthday of Vera Nikolaevna Lodyzhenskaya: it says in the calendar "Saints Faith, Hope and Charity".

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Aleksandr Zhirkevich

Simbirsk, Russian Republic

I never thought that Tolstoy would the central figure that illuminated my past. Memories of my meetings with him crop up more and more often in my mind. These memories are the yardstick by which I measure my conscientiousness and attitude to the surrounding environment. What would L.N. think of such and such an event? L.N helps me from beyond the grave.

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Vladimir Voyeykov

Petrograd, Russian Republic

On the day of Faith, Hope, and Charity, several people from the observation team came and said goodbye, and told me that I should be ready for transfer at 11 AM. “What transfer?” I asked, and they responded: “Transfer to the hospital, and then, to freedom… Your sitting is over”. See more

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29 September

“There was a feeling among business men and the intelligentzia generally that the Revolution had gone quite far enough, and lasted too long“

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Miller system exercise

1916: Year in Review.

Map of the Royal dynasties of Europe

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in Petrograd

in Moscow