19 October 1917. Konstantin Balmont

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

Konstantin Balmont

Москва

Российская Держава

Российская Держава,
Где все твое величье?
Корабль твой старый «Слава»
Разбит и утонул.
Твои войска бессильны,
Умы и души пыльны.
Ты в топях безразличья.
Твой блеск — далекий гул.

Российская Держава,
Была ты первой в мире,
Страдая величаво
В своих стесненных днях.
Но вот разъялись хляби,
И лик взяла ты рабий.
Упившись в диком пире,
Проснешься — вновь в цепях.
Российская Держава,
Твой краткий сон — свобода.
Но кто желает права,
Тот должен помнить долг.
А дикость своеволья
Лишь малый миг раздолья.
Нет правды у народа,
И голос воли смолк.

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✍ Also today

Mikhail Bogoslovskiy

Moscow, Russian Republic

Suddenly it’s grown very cold. Temperature has dropped below 0°. We are losing the Baltic sea and returning to the borders the way they were during the time of Ivan the Terrible.

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Russkoe Slovo

Russian Republic

A commissar of the Romanian Front has commented on the dangers presented by the vast quantities of wine stored so near our trenches in Bessarabia. It is of the utmost importance to remove this wine from Bessarabia, sparing no expense in providing the army with the security it needs.

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Petrogradskaya Gazeta

Russian Republic

The Vyborg Food Committee has issued food cards to the Romanov family. Only the sick members of the former royal family will get flour.

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Romain Rolland

Grand Hotel Chateau Bellevue, Sierre, Switzerland

BiryukovPavel Biryukov is a publicist, a biographer of Leo Tolstoy. said that the Americans are making inroads into Russia and believe that they outclass her not only morally but materially as well. They’ve dispatched hundreds of missionary laymen there to convert the Russians to their faith. They take their mission of “God and the dollar” very seriously.

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Karl Radek

Liberation can only be possible if Bolsheviks seize power.

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Alfred Knox

Petrograd, Russian Republic

Savinkov suspects German work in the KornilovCommander in Chief of the Petrograd command - from 18 March 1917 business. His point is that there were three possible outcomes of the “ adventure ” :

Agreement between Aleksandr Kerensky and Kornilov.
Victory of Kornilov.
Victory of Kerenski.

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Nicholas Roerich

is working on “The end of giants”

83 Moyka embarkment, Petrograd, Russian Republic

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John Reed

Petrograd, Russian Republic

I have personally met officers on the Northern Front who frankly preferred military disaster to cooperation with the Soldiers’ Committees. The secretary of the Petrograd branch of the Cadet party told me that the break-down of the country’s economic life was part of a campaign to discredit the Revolution. See more

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

United Kingdom

It need not be repeated that the case for despotism is democratic. As a rule its cruelty to the strong is kindness to the weak.

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Edvard Munch

paints «Weeding»

Ekely estate, Norway

John Reed

Petrograd, Russian Republic

What a revelation of the vitality of the Russian Revolution, after all these months of starvation and disillusionment! The bourgeoisie should have better known its Russia.

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John Reed

Petrograd, Russian Republic

The trial of KornilovCommander in Chief of the Petrograd command - from 18 March 1917 was coming on. More and more openly the bourgeois press defended him, speaking of him as “the great Russian patriot.” Burtzev’s paper, Obshtchee Dielo (Common Cause), called for a dictatorship of Kornilov, Kaledin and Kerensky! See more

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Nicholas II

Tobolsk, Russian Republic

It was a clear, cold day. I learned of the arrival yesterday of Mr. Gibbs, but I still have not seen him, probably because he brought some things and letters which have not been inspected. I began the sixth volume of Leskov.

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18 October

Germans capture Esel

A church has denied the Romanovs entrance on Alexei’s name day

Chesterton: “A history from the standpoint of a member of the public has not been written”

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Death of Rasputin. Murder conspiracy and its consequences

in Petrograd

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in Moscow