19 January 1917. Konstantin Somov

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

Konstantin Somov

I painted the last engraving - a woman with the devil.

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Aleksandr Savin

Moscow, Russian Empire

We begin every year thinking that it can't get worse. And then it gets worse.

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Irina Yusupova Maria Feodorovna

Rakitnoe estate, Kurskaya guberniya, Russain Empire

Dear Grandmother! I'm sorry I still haven't carried out my promise and haven't written to you. Our life here is quiet and calm. Felix's mother and father still fight from time to time, which is rather amusing. Felix himself caught a cold and spends his days in bed, which is rather boring. The candies you gave me are very tasty, I keep eating them all the time.

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Vladimir Lenin

Clarens, Switzerland

My dear friend!

Your worries about "German captivity" are profuse and have no ground. There's no danger. We're staying here for now. When you choose where to live, please, don't let yourself be influenced by calculations if I go there. It would be absurd and ridiculous if I were to limit your choices of places to live by worries if I "might" come there as well in the future!

My best wishes.

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The wounded take printing press and calculating machine classes in a South African hospital.

George Buchanan

4, Dvortsovaya embankment, Petrograd, Russian Empire (British Embassy)

A Russian friend of mine sent me a message through Colonel Thornhill, our assistant military attache, to say that there would be a revolution before Easter, but that I need not be alarmed, as it would not last more than a fortnight.

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18 January

1916: Year in Review.

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in Petrograd

-15

in Moscow