2 November 1917. W. Somerset Maugham

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Scotland, United Kingdom

Бесконечные разговоры там, где требовалось действовать; колебания; апатия, ведущая прямым путем к катастрофе; напыщенные декларации, неискренность и вялость, которые я повсюду наблюдал, — все это оттолкнуло меня от России и русских.

Кроме того, теперь я был не на шутку болен, так как по роду своей деятельности не мог пользоваться прекрасным снабжением, с помощью которого посольство служило родине на сытый желудок, и существовал впроголодь, как и сами русские.

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Nicholas II

Tobolsk, Russian Republic

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A funeral procession headed to the train station. From here the body of the late Alexander III was shipped to Moscow. 1894.

Today is already the 23rd. anniversary of the death of dear Papa. Such circumstances he never lived to see! God, how trying for poor. Russia! In the evening before dinner we attended vespers.

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Zinaida Gippius

Petrograd, Russian Republic

The KornilovCommander in Chief of the Petrograd command - from 18 March 1917 business is lighting-up uncontrollably. Slowly, gradually this story is stripping off the final scraps of common sense. See more

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Pavel Dybenko

"Polar Star" yacht, Helsingfors, Finland,

We wait. The task has been given to all. The password and alarms have been set. Our signal of action - a telegram addressed to me from Petrograd, signed by Antonov-Ovseyenko: “Send out the charter.” See more

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Military Revolutionary Committee

Smolny Institute, Petrograd, Russian Republic

The first meeting of the Military Revolutionary Committee took place. The Organisational Bureau has presented a report on a number of tasks to be solved at the meetings, and the establishment of a liaison service with local and suburban units. See more

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Alexander Blok

Petrograd, Russian Republic

There recently emerged in the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies a large schism among the Bolsheviks. Zinoviev, Trotsky et al considered a public declaration essential, whatever its results might be, and they regarded these results with pessimism. Lenin alone believes that seizing the power of democracy will certainly extirpate war and right all over the country. See more

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Vladimir Nabokov

Petrograd, Russian Republic

Rumours about the Bolshevik rally in the coming days spread around the city, worrying and disturbing everyone. In these days, there was given - a completely academic - order to arrest Lenin.

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George Buchanan

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

Tereschenko, whom I met this afternoon at the Provisional Council, told me that Scobeleff had to-day held more conciliatory language and had spoken of the instructions which he had received as representing, not the demands, but the wishes of the Russian democracy as to the attitude to be adopted by their delegate should the subjects touched on come up for discussion at the conference. See more

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1 November

"We're expecting a Bolshevik uprising any day now"

Lenin: "No self-respecting party can tolerate strike-breaking and blacklegs in its midst."

German victory by Tagliamento

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in Petrograd

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