Many doctors and chemists had got into the habit of taking morphia; through them the use of the drug had spread among officers, officials, engineers and students. Before long the hospital attendants had followed their examples, and their case was far more pernicious because they had made men of the people their companions in debauchery. When they did not take morphia themselves they sold it to others; everyone in Viatka knew the cabarets where this trade was carried on. The police had good reasons for shutting their eyes to it ...
Monsignor Theophanes ended thus:
"The wretched condition to which the sviat chenik isreduced, as things are now, compels him to resort to a scandalous sort of trading which deprives him of all prestige and dignity. I anticipate great disasters to our holy church unless its supreme guardian, our revered and pious Tsar, reforms it as soon as possible..."
Brooke McMurray, Ge Hailun and 3 others
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Rurik Ivnev
Kamennoostrovskiy avenue, Petrograd, Russian Empire
Some girl on the tram accidentally bumped into me. I was in a black mood and got absolutely enraged for some reason. Suddenly, though, I noticed that the girl’s sleeve was stained with something white, and all my anger melted away at once, with nothing less than pity taking its place. (The little stain on her sleeve struck me as poignant – I was moved by the thought that her folks hadn’t got it out for her at home, etc.)
Andre Badenhorst, Maria V. Zolotukhina and 5 others
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Amedeo Modigliani
works on the painting "Blonde Nude"
Emil Gudo's square, 13, Paris, France
Gloria V Nijensohn Stokol, Nell Rapport and 2 others
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Alexandra Feodorovna
Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire
We went in a closed car with Tatiana, Anastasia and Anya Vyrubova to Alexandrovskii street and back again.
Nell Rapport
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Alexey Vasilyev
situation in Petrograd
Petrograd, Russian Empire
A strike has begun in the factory in Putilov.
Matt Kosko, Nell Rapport and 1 other
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Zinaida Gippius
Petrograd, Russian Empire
The embassies are preoccupied exclusively with the war. The French couldn’t care less what’s going on inside the country – provided Russia’s fighting well; and they keep harassing us for news from the front. They were placated with the information that the current state of affairs is “reassuring”, and, as regards the Caucasus, even “magnificent”. A host of minor news stories and silly rumours are doing the rounds – they’re saying, for example, that “Wilhelm has been killed”. Now that’s a good one! Dima has learned much that is comic and tragic from right-wing dignitary circles.
Nell Rapport
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02 March
General Denikin complains that he cannot express himself explicitly in letters to his bride on account of censorship
Admire "A girl in yellow dress" by Modigliani
Freud is in a bad mood
Maurice Paleologue
10, Kutuzov embankment, Petrograd, Russian Empire
The effects of the stimulant which the Allied Conference provided to the Russian Government departments, or at any rate the departmental offices in Petrograd, has already worn off.
The artillery, war-factory and supply and transport departments have fallen back into their old casual and leisurely ways. Our officers and engineers are up against the same dilatory replies, the same dead weight of inactivity and indifference as before. It is enough to make one despair of everything. How I can sympathize with the spur of Ivan the Terrible and the cane of Peter the Great!
Nick Short, CM Lund and 1 other
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Anton Denikin Xenia Chizh
Romanian front, 4 Army, 8 Corps
You’re unhappy with the fact that I’ve told you little about the situation here. That’s true enough. But, when it comes to most operations-related matters, matters of army life, or even matters regarding the country at large – matters that could be of interest to you – we must observe the injunction against disclosing military secrets. It’s for this reason that my letters are colourless and insipid. As to letters concerning completely neutral matters – matters of heart and soul – it’s none too pleasant when they’re rifled by the hand of a stranger, and not always a clean hand at that.
Ned Lewis, Ge Hailun
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Nikolay Gumilyov
Okulovka, Novgorodskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
I have been assigned a new colonel, who is frightfully thoughtful and dedicated. He will make a pleasant companion and an even better worker.
Orhan Gafarlı
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Amedeo Modigliani
paints "A girl in yellow dress"
Emil Gudo's square, 13, Paris, France
Carol Mann, Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal and 13 others
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Sigmund Freud
19, Berggasse, Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire
In the last weeks of cold and dark I stopped working in the evenings and am yet to return to it. Even now it is warmer the lack of light prevents me from finding any pleasure in my work and gives me enough justification to put it aside. My motivation for work has been dulled and supressed. This unbearable waiting to find out what is to come of this world of ours is too much for me. I am considering returning to work in the summer, at that time when one needs to struggle with one’s nature and force oneself to work in the city.
As for science, it seems of late there has been little of novelty and only slow progress.
Nick Short, Sara Lomasz Flesch and 8 others
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Lev Tikhomirov
Moscow, Russian Empire
Our poor hungry cat torments us with its cries for food. But we ourselves are in the same position.
Ge Hailun, Andre Badenhorst and 1 other
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Alexander Rodchenko
Moscow, Russian Empire
Art's value is determined by its capacity to stride unceasingly ahead. Its most treasured principles must be
novelty,
inventiveness,
inquisitiveness,
analysis,
rebellion
and daring.
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01 March
The Empress is just about holding it together – but only thanks to barbiturates
Mata Hari is questioned by the French authorities
The Russian army is sent pornographic images from France
Alfred Knox
Petrograd, Russian Empire
The Ambassador left yesterday for Finland on a few days’ well-earned holiday. I had an interview with Byelyaev to give him a telegram from Sir Henry Wilson describing the disorganisation at Romanov. I put the case as strongly as I could, pointing out that it was disgraceful that our merchant seamen should risk their lives to deliver material at Romanov that the Russians made no attempt to remove. See more