27 October 1917. Korney Chukovsky

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

Korney Chukovsky

27 Zagorodny avenue, Petrograd, Russian Republic

I’m spending whole days organising a Anglo-American gift to the Russian people: 2,000,000 free copies of textbooks. I’m exhausted, I can’t sleep due to fatigue every night.

I’m getting old and my hair is turning grey. Soon I’ll be dead. And the winters only just beginning, there is no rest ahead. And so Kornei will have had it for nothing. Family? But Kolka is growing – he’s an unthinking egoist, and Lida is frail, green, tortured.

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I’m not sure that I’ll have time to write to you tomorrow morning, so I’m writing at night. It’s bad. Very bad. See more

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John Reed

Petrograd, Russian Republic

The Constituent Assembly was all well and good; but there were certain definite things for which the Russian Revolution had been made, and for which the revolutionary martyrs rotted in their stark Brotherhood Grave on Mars Field, that must be achieved Constituent Assembly or no Constituent Assembly: Peace, Land, and Workers’ Control of Industry. See more

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Russkie Vedomosti

Moscow, Russian Republic

Due to the anticipated Bolshevik uprising house committees are forming their own guard recruiting the tenants.

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Alexandra Feodorovna Anna Vyrubova

Tobolsk, Russian Republic

My darling: We are thinking constantly of you and of all the suffering you have had to endure. God help you in the future. How are your weak heart and your poor legs? We hope to go to Communion as usual if we are to be allowed See more

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Alfred Knox

4, Dvortsovaya embankment, Petrograd, Russian Republic (British Embassy)

I collected information to reply to telegram from home regarding the situation on the Northern Front. My opinion, in brief, is that the enemy will not attempt to get to Petrograd this year, but if he should attempt there is nothing to stop him except climate and space. See more

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