28 November 1917. Vasily Rozanov

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

Vasily Rozanov

1, Polevaya street, Sergiev Posad, Russian Republic

Russia has disappeared in two days. In three days at most. Even the paper "Novoe vremya" couldn't be closed faster than Russia was closed.

It's astonishing that it fell to pieces all at once. The world has never experienced anything similar, not even at the time of The Migration Period. That was an era, two or three centuries. Here it happened in three days, seemingly even in two. There was no Tsardom left, no Church, no army, no working class. What is left, then? Almost nothing.

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George Buchanan

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

I have received a note from Trotsky demanding the release of two Russians — Chicherin and Petroff — who have been interned in England for the anti-war propaganda which they have apparently been making among our workmen. See more

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Vladimir Korolenko

1, Malo-Sadovaya st., Poltava, Russian Republic

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