2 January 1918. Nikolay Gumilyov

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

Nikolay Gumilyov

Париж, отеле «Castille», rue Cambon, 33

Восток и нежный и блестящий
В себе открыла Гончарова,
Величье жизни настояще
У Ларионова сурово.

В себе открыла Гончарова
Павлиньих красок бред и пенье,
У Ларионова сурово
Железного огня круженье.

Павлиньих красок бред и пенье
От Индии до Византии,
Железного огня круженье —
Вой покоряемой стихии.

От Индии до Византи
Кто дремлет, если не Россия?
Вой покоряемой стихии —
Не обновленная ль стихия?

Кто дремлет, если не Россия?
Кто видит сон Христа и Будды?
Не обновленная ль стихия —
Снопы лучей и камней груды?

Кто видит сон Христа и Будды,
Тот стал на сказочные тропы.
Снопы лучей и камней груды —
О, как хохочут рудокопы!

Тот встал на сказочные тропы
В персидских, милых миньятюрах.
О, как хохочут рудокопы
Везде, в полях и шахтах хмурых.

В персидских, милых миньятюрах
Величье жизни настоящей.
Везде, в полях и шахтах хмурых

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Council of People's Commissars

Smolny Institute, Petrograd, Russian Republic

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Serge Diaghilev Leon Bakst

Lisbon, Portugal

You should finish sketching the scenery for Scarlatti at once. We need it for the season at the Paris Opera. It begins in February. I’ll be in Paris on January 20th.

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Zinaida Gippius

Sergievskaya 83, Petrograd, Russian Republic

A painful episode in the fortress yesterday: the batman Pavlov (an assistant to the commandant) intercepted a letter from Kartashov to his sister in which he’d written that “Russia has become Germany’s hired hand”. See more

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Sergey Prokofiev

Kislovodsk, Russian Republic

I’m not pleased with myself, I’ve done very little. A draft of the Third Concert, planned out the finale. I started rewriting it clean: it was a lot of work to do, although it was nice and easy.

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Alexander Kerensky

Bologoye, Tver Oblast, Russian Republic

The revolution, the war, and the restoration of the government were tied into one knot that could not be cut but had to be unraveled. Not one government has born such a triple burden and such a triple responsibility during a war. We were perfectly aware of all the logical incompatibility of war and revolution. See more

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Nicholas II

Tobolsk, Russian Republic

It was a nice sunny day but windy. Today I finished the third volume of General History. From six o’clock on we rehearsed all our parts; they went smoothly.

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