29 December 1917. Felix Rostkovsky

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 Rostkovsky

Petrograd, Russian Republic

The previous talks about terminating pensions have been justified - today the Bolshevik government decreed that pensions paid to those who receive more than 300 roubles per month will cease.

Consequently, I will not receive a single penny for my service of more than 50 years, and this means that my Emeratura has also disappeared. What can I do? What have I done to deserve such punishment? I do not know, but there's nothing that anybody can do.

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Marina Tsvetaeva

Borisoglebsky lane, 6, Moscow, Russian Republic

A pale dawn.

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Anna Akhmatova

Petrograd, Russian Republic

is attending an event at the Union of the People of Art

Also going: Bely, Blok, Sologub, Ivnev, Yesenin, Kuzmin, Mandelstam, Teffi.

Vladimir Purishkevich

Petropavlovskaya Fortress, Petrograd, Russian Republic

Russia will wipe the Bolshevism out, and the names of its leaders will be cursed by future generations. Society’s most pressing task now is to maintain the struggle. Forward! Open the eyes of the soldiers and the people. They will recognize the holy banner of truth when it raised aloft before them. A great people must be destined for a great future.

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Council of People's Commissars with Leon Trotsky

Smolny Institute, Petrograd, Russian Republic

Stalin’s report on Orenburg, the Ural region and Turkestan. The possibility of cutting Siberia off from Russia. Orders for comrades Stalin and Kolegaev: 1) to hold talks with the Military Commissariat on the immediate fulfilment of the demands for military assistance and to monitor the execution of these demands; 2) having agreed on the necessity of dispatching money to Samara, to hold talks with the Military Commissariat and the manager of the State Bank on the size of the required sum and the details of its delivery.

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Elizaveta Kuzmina-Karavaeva

Moscow, Russian Republic

Bolshevism is the catastrophe which has finally brought on the collapse of the building of our old culture. The sum of its achievements, if there were any, has been wiped out. This process parallels in the political and sociological realms that of futurism in art: it is the conclusion to the process of decay. See more

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Nicholas II

Tobolsk, Russian Republic

It got a little warmer, 10 degrees. The morning was overcast but the day was sunny. I chopped up a lot of small firewood for our baths. At 9 o'clock vespers was held.

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28 December

Germans want a separation of Poland, Lithuania, Kurland, as well as some parts of Estonia and Latvia from Russia

The former Empress is mending socks

Armed guards are introduced on the banks

Map of the Royal dynasties of Europe

Romanovs dangerous liaisons

From one revolution to another

Russia in 1917

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in Petrograd

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in Moscow