3 January 1918. Alexandre Benois

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

Alexandre Benois

38, 1st line of Vasilyevsky Island, Petrograd, Russian Republic

A raging snowstorm is pounding at the windows. After yesterday’s somewhat hysterical tone in the news, today’s seems calmer. And it’s about time! Perhaps the last of our common sense has not yet died out, and before people push each other into the abyss, they’ll come back to their right minds and decide to grapple with the conditions of reality.

Judging by the newspapers, the hub of the “counterrevolution” is now in Novocherkassk. Savinkov is there, and Alekseev, and Commander Kornilov. I doubt that they have a chance at success even if the rumors are true about a “white” conspiracy in Petersburg and Moscow involving both the formal monarchists and the moderate socialists. In the evening, a rumor spread that the Sovereign and his family had successfully arrived in Nagasaki.

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Vladimir Lenin

Petrograd, Russian Republic

Dear Citizen Charles DumasSecretary of the French government member Jules Guesde.,

My wife and I recall with great pleasure the time we met you in Paris, rue Bonier. We are very grateful to you for the exchange of ideas and for the very accurate information on the socialist movement in France. See more

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Marina Tsvetaeva

Borisoglebsky lane, 6, Moscow, Russian Republic

Some people are selling themselves for money, I’m selling myself for poetry (soul).

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Den'

Yesterday they stopped selling passenger tickets to Kiev.

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Ottokar Czernin

2, Ballhausplatz, Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire

From the 29th to the morning of the 3rd I was in Vienna. Two long audiences with the Emperor gave me the opportunity of telling him what had passed at Brest. He fully approves, of course, the point of view that peace must be made, if at all possible. See more

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Alfred Knox

Petrograd, Russian Republic

There has been a hitch in the peace negotiations. The Pravda (“Truth’’) publishes articles such as “ The Mask Torn Off,” and as the Novaya Jizn ("The New Life”) says, makes big eyes ofinnocence!! The hitch has come over the interpretation of the principle, “No annexations”. See more

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