26 November 1917. Felix Yusupov

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

Felix Yusupov

the estate of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich, Ai-Todor, Crimea, Russian Republic

My parents arrived after me in a large car, whose bonnet bore a flag with the Yusupov family coat of arms and a crown. This told me that everything was still tranquil in Crimea.

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Vera Sudeikina

Yalta, Crimea, Russian Republic

Depressing conversations about politics. Crimea is seceding. In one week, you can only take a hundred and fifty rubles out of a bank. Soon no one will need paintings. What to do. The allies are threatening us. I cried.

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Vladimir Vernadsky

Petrograd, Russian Republic

Everyone is going to vote, they say, yesterday and today there were a lot of people. What will they bring? Bolsheviks and Constitutional Democrats will get the majority? We have not heard of any big violations yet.

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Tamara Karsavina with Michel Fokine

Mariinsky theatre, Petrograd, Russian Republic

is playing the part of Henrietta in the ballet «Raymonda»

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Kazimir Malevich

became member of the Commission for the Protection of the art treasures of the Kremlin

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Rosa Luxemburg

Prison of Breslau (Wroclaw), Wiezienna street, Poland

I am absolutely sure that in the next few years a big upheaval will inevitably occur in Europe - especially if the war continues much longer, and this is more than possible.
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