11 November 1917. Leonid Andreyev

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11 November

Today:

Leonid Andreyev: "There has been a revolution, but a revolution that has turned everything on its head"

Petrograd is waiting for Kerensky’s troops

Buchanan: "We ought to endeavour to gain and keep the control of the war to which our strength entitles us, using that strength to sustain our Allies without allowing them to lose their self-reliance."

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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

Leonid Andreyev

Vammelsuu, Finland

There has been a revolution, but a revolution that has turned everything on its head. Everything is upside down. The day comes, and this is the picture that greets us: everything is upside down. And they tell us this is how we must live.

They are now the government of Russia. They will be in charge of the Academy of Sciences, the universities, they will make the laws - these illiterates. It is quite clearly impossible, and yet it is true, it exists, it is a fact! And I cannot grasp anything, everything is inconceivable, it’s as if I had to live underwater. Of course, it will end soon, but when? And how? History has never known such a thing. When the barbarians seized power, they still brought with them some way of life, some structure - but this lot? This isn’t the Paris Commune. This is the revolt of darkness against knowledge, stupidity against intellect. And not only revolt but victory and rule. No, I can’t bear it.

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Zamyatin‘s apartment, 36, Mokhovaya street, Petrograd, Russian Republic

Nobody knows anything. Cut off from the world. There is no battle. Silence, once in a while one can see the blue sky. Telephones for private conversations are off. There is rumour of a railway strike. See more

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Maria Feodorovna

Ai-Todor, Crimea, Russian Republic

As before, I have been getting up late, but every morning, I am visited by my dear children and grandchildren. Later I went out onto my balcony again. The weather is beautiful, but nothing brings me joy anymore. I suddenly felt ill and for some reason I was sick. See more

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George Buchanan

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

The last two days have passed without disturbance, and yesterday it was generally believed that Kerensky's troops would be here by now and that the situation would be liquidated. See more

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Alexander Kerensky

Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Republic

By the morning we should have been in Petrograd, but we had only gotten as far as Tsarskoye Selo. That same day an anti-Bolshevik revolt broke out in the capital. At four in the afternoon I was called to the telephone. See more

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John Reed

Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Republic

We strolled toward the Imperial Palaces, along the edge of the vast, dark gardens, their fantastic pavilions and ornamental bridges looming uncertainly in the night, and soft water splashing from the fountains. See more

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Vladimir Lenin

The political question is now merging with the military question

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Winston Churchill

London, United Kingdom

We ought to endeavour to gain and keep the control of the war to which our strength entitles us, using that strength to sustain our Allies without allowing them to lose their self-reliance. We should be careful not to dissipate our strength or melt it down to the average level of exhausted nations. See more

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Edvard Munch

Ekely estate, Norway

works on «Conversation»

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Nicholas II

Tobolsk, Russian Republic

We got up at 7 o'clock when it was still completely dark and at 8 o'clock we went to Mass. After the second tea we took a walk. The weather was mild and overcast, I wrote to Olga [Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, sister of Nicholas]. I began the tenth volume of Leskov. Today we repaired a collection of things donated by the people for use of the army on the front.

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