21 November 1917. Mikhail Alekseyev

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

Mikhail Alekseyev

Novocherkassk, Russian Republic

Arrived in Novocherkassk, with intentions not only to find temporary shelter but also to start working, if it’s possible, that is.

The South-eastern corner of Russia is an area of relative peace and comparative governmental order and stability; here there isn’t anarchy, there isn’t even harshly declaimed class struggle, apart – to a certain extent – from coal and ore regions.

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Zinaida Gippius

Sergievskaya 83, Petrograd, Russian Republic

It's my birthday. Deep snow has fallen. We went sleighing. There's nothing new.

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Vladimir Vernadsky

Petrograd, Russian Republic

Thoughts about complete and temporary emigration are now firm among some people. It always used to be like this – but rarely in Russia.

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Sergey Kablukov

Petrograd, Russian Republic

Yesterday the “new government” led by Lenin and Trotsky tried to take 10 million from the State bank. This attempt was not successful.

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Nadezhda Udaltsova

82 apartment, 65, Smolenskiy blvd, Moscow, Russian Republic

What desolate and ghastly days these are. Neither side is in the right, and both sides are to blame for the bloodshed. So much deceit, so many tears, so much grief. What has become of decent, peaceable people? Whence this inhuman malice? – But no, not even malice: perversion. Ignorance? But when educated, cultured city-dwellers dehumanise themselves as well... Terrifying times indeed.

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Pathe News

King George V and Queen Mary visit Lancashire.

The New York Times

No shipments of supplies will be permitted to go from the United States to Russia until the situation in that country clears. The American Government, before allowing the export of goods already on the docks, wants to know into whose hands they will fall on their arrival. See more

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20 November

Yusupov learns about his own arrest in papers

“There is a siege on the State Bank. Employees are not keeping the Bolsheviks away from the counters”

Cocteau: “All capitals save for Paris are provinciall”

1916: Year in Review.

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in Petrograd

in Moscow