23 November 1917. John Reed

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

John Reed

Red Square, Moscow, Russian Pepublic

Already through the Iberian Gate a human river was flowing, and the vast Red Square was spotted with people, thousands of them. I remarked that as the throng passed the Iberian Chapel, where always before the passerby had crossed himself, they did not seem to notice it….

The Holy Orthodox Church had withdrawn the light of its countenance from Moscow, the nest of irreverent vipers who had bombarded the Kremlin. Dark and silent and cold were the churches; the priests had disappeared. There were no popes to officiate at the Red Burial, there had been no sacrament for the dead, nor were any prayers to be said over the grave of the blasphemers.

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Rurik Ivnev

Petrograd, Russian Republic

My God! How I long for a true daylight, true sun, true day...

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Zinaida Gippius

Sergievskaya 83, Petrograd, Russian Republic

It continues. Lenin has deposed the Commander-in-Chief Dukhonin. Appointed an ensign, Krylenko (com. Abram). It is not known if Dukhonin agreed to be deposed. A voluntary “truce” has been announced. Germany, however, does not give a damn. Next: they’ve appropriated all gold currency in Moscow.

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Pierre Pascal

Petrograd, Russian Republic

The inhabitants of a certain village in the Tul’skaia gubernia splendidly buried, and at public expense, the daughter of its former landowner who was killed in the war. They even erected a chapel above the grave et cetera. Recently they set about pillaging the property, exhumed the grave, opened the coffin and took the boots off the corpse.

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Sergey Prokofiev

Kislovodsk, Russian Republic

My state of mind. My attitudes to the unfolding events. A strange serenity. I somehow regarded it all as inevitable, as something that must boil over and run its course, and there somehow wasn’t anyone whose fate was a source of concern for me. Nina Meshcherskaya did cross my mind on several occasions, but she was now married. See more

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Vladimir Lenin

Petrograd, Russian Republic

The full text of our talks with Dukhonin has been printed, so I can confine myself to a few remarks. It was clear to us that we were dealing with an opponent of the people's will and an enemy of the revolution. See more

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