10 December 1917. Feodor Chaliapin

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

Feodor Chaliapin

is singing the part of Farlaf in Glinka's opera "Ruslan and Lyudmila"

Mariinsky theatre, Petrograd, Russian Republic

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Sigmund Freud

19, Berggasse, Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire

They announced entering into a truce with Russia. Had I not been so apathetic, I'd have been very happy to witness the end of the war.

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Zinaida Gippius

Sergievskaya 83, Petrograd, Russian Republic

Tomorrow’s Constituent Assembly has been postponed. One issue is that the Bolsheviks still haven’t succeeded with their city council. The other is that they require a minimum of 400 people’s cash, knowing full well that the elections were slowed down because of their actions. They counted the arrivals while systematically arresting them. See more

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Anton Denikin

Novocherkassk, Russian Republic

Дмитрий Потоцкий, бывший военный губернатор Ростова.GeneralДмитрий Потоцкий, бывший военный губернатор Ростова. Pototsky came to Novocherkassk and my wife who was in attendance told me that he’d just brought Kerensky with him, who’d gone to Kaledin. Over lunch at Kaledin’s, I personally heard the conversation between his close compatriots: Keresnky had arrived, initially dropping in on Bogaevsky, where he was not well received. See more

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Alexander Zamaraev

Totma, Vologodskaya guberniya, Russian Republic

Today I brought some firewood from Smolianka. The weather is calm. A three-month truce has been called, but the news isn’t good. We don’t know what’s being done there. Tomorrow the Constituent Assembly is supposed to convene, but it’s unlikely.

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Clara Zetkin

Waldheim Sillenbuch, Stuttgart, Deutschland

Housekeeping is the most backward, petty, crippling form of menial labor. In the countries where the proletariat has come to power, it should be integrated into the overall economic system so that a housewife could become a free worker of a big economy instead of a slave of a small business.

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George Buchanan

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

More than twenty-five journalists, representing papers of every shade of opinion save the Bolsheviks, attended the interview to which I had invited the Press. It was rather a trying ordeal, as after Harold Williams had read my statement in Russian and after copies had been handed round, the representatives of the bourgeois Press asked me a number of unnecessary and compromising questions which I could not answer without exposing myself to still more embarrassing questions from the Socialists. See more

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Natalia Goncharova

Paris, rue Cambon, 37, hotel Castille

When people became reinforced in one of my thoughts, I left it.

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Felix Yusupov

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

The fighting has started. The Black sea fleet took the Bolshevik’s side. In Sevastopol they’ve been killing officers. The whole of Crimea has become a slaughterhouse. Sailors broke into houses, raping women and children in front of their families. See more

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