10 January 1918. Mikhail Bulgakov

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 Bulgakov

Vyazma, Russian Republic

I long desperately to get out of here, to Moscow or to Kiev, where at least life is still going on, albeit falteringly. I’d particularly like to be in Kiev! The New Year will arrive in two hours’ time. What will it bring me? I was sleeping just now, and I dreamed of Kiev, of faces dear and familiar; I dreamed that someone was playing the piano… Will the old times return?

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Ottokar Czernin

Brest, Belorussia

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