26 November 1917. Rosa Luxemburg

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

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.
The events in Russia are incredible in scale and tragedy.

Lenin and his comrades, of course, cannot get out of this inextricable chaos, but their attempt in and of itself will be seen as a turning point in world history. I have no doubt that the honorable German proletarians, just like the French and the British, and now the Russians, will allow themselves to continue bleeding. But this will inevitably happen after a few years. They cannot be rescued from cowardice and weakness. But generally, I take it all in quite calm and cheerful. It's ridiculous to resent the whole of humanity at once, such things should be observed with the calm of a scientist. I definitely feel that events are entering a crucial phase.

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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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Mikhail Nesterov

is working on «Landscape»

43, Sivtsev Vrazhek street, Moscow, Russian Republic

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Dziga Vertov

7, Malyy Gnezdikovsky lane, Moscow, Russian Republic

started working in the newsreel department of the Moscow Committee for Cinema

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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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25 November

"It is rather unlikely that Lenin’s people will be able to hold on to power in this horrible chaos, with complete indifference from the people in the West"

The elections for the Constituent Assembly commenced today

Rurik Ivnev is thinking about suicide

From one revolution to another

Russia in 1917

Map of the Royal dynasties of Europe

Romanovs dangerous liaisons

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in Petrograd

in Moscow