Nick Short, Ge Hailun
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Franz Kafka
rents a two-room apartment on the Schoenborn Palace
Prague, Schönborn Palace
Nick Short, Sara Lomasz Flesch and 13 others
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Zinaida Gippius
Sergievskaya 83, Petrograd, Russian Empire
It would be good to be blind and deaf. I would write poems “on love and immortality” (oh, if only I could!) and would cease being a “public figure”. What’s not public about genuinely good poetry? Those who take to writing should do with fewer opinions. Let the facts speak for themselves. Life will justify me.
Nick Short, Ge Hailun and 3 others
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Elizaveta Naryshkina
Petrograd, Russian Empire
The Emperor thinks of nothing but his unlimited power, and works exclusively towards securing it. Alas, alas – he stands to lose far more in the future than what he should voluntarily relinquish now, thus securing his popularity and the love of his people.
Sebastian Clare, Nick Short and 4 others
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Lili Dehn
Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire
The Empress was in very indifferent health. At an official reception following the departure of the Guards, the Empress told me that she hardly knew how to endure the strain. "Veronal is keeping me up. I'm literally saturated with it," she said.
Nick Short, Maria V. Zolotukhina and 1 other
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Mata Hari
at her interrogation
107, Faubourg Saint-Denis street, Paris, France
I was arrested on February 13. That’s all. In closing, I want to protest once again. I’ve never spied against France, nor have I even attempted to do so. I haven’t written a single letter I shouldn’t have written. I’ve never asked my friends for information which did not concern me, and I’ve never set foot anywhere I had no business to be. My original intention was to remain in France for no more than three months. My thoughts were only of my lover. Espionage couldn’t be further from my mind. Only circumstances decided otherwise.
Sebastian Clare, Ion Copoeru and 2 others
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Andrei Snesarev
Tysmenytsia, Russian Empire
Pornographic pictures from France are going around.
Ništa Niko
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28 February
The event everybody has been fearing and anticipating begins
Nikolai II “ I came down with a bad head cold straight away”
Kerensky: “The worst enemy of all is the system of irresponsible despotism”
Vyacheslav Ivanov
"Svetlana" resort, Sochi, Russian Empire
How important the South is to me! Every day I experience the festival and celebration of meeting with the sea. My heart is gladdened at the sight of every flower and every branch. Why, here we have had raspberries in December, and violets all year round; the mimosa has only just finished flowering, while the almonds and azaleas have just come out in flower, and now, all of a sudden, we are snowed under.
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Maurice Paleologue
10, Kutuzova embankment, Petrograd, Russian Empire
From whatever point of view the Russian be regarded, whether political, intellectual, moral or religious, he always presents the paradoxicaI spectacle of extreme docility combined with a spirit of revolt which is very strongly marked.See more
Ion Copoeru
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El Paso herald
Russia, which Is under rather a sinister influence of the planets. will turn to the UnIted States for supplIes and Immense contracts are possIble, but warning Is gIven that graft and double- dealIng are IndIcated. ShIppIng troubles more serious than any that have been experienced are prophesied for England. Persons whose birthdate It Is have the augury of a successful year. Change and travel that wIll be lucky are probable, Children born on thIs day are lIkely to be bright and industrious. These subjects of Pisces usually prosper in whatever they undertake. Neptune Is theIr principal ruling planet.
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Aleksandr Kerensky
speaks in the Duma
State Duma, Petrograd, Russian Empire
We have an enemy, gentlemen, that is much more dangerous than German agents, or betrayal and the treachery of isolated figures. It is our system, our system of unaccountable despotism, our system of medieval ideas about the state, ideas not of the state not as a modern European entity, but as a dominion, in which there is only the ruler and his slaves.
Taco Tichelaar, CM Lund and 2 others
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Sergey Makovsky
Razyezzhaya street, Petrograd
The melting snow on Ivanovskaya Street has turned into thick, dirty slush. As usual, I left the house about eleven and hailed a cab. Up drove up “Vanka”, an old man with a grey, matted beard who looks as if he is grown over with moss.See more
CM Lund
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Mikhail Rodzianko Nicholas II
32, Kirochnaya street, Petrograd, Russian Empire
Your Majesty, at the grave hour of when the country faced imminent death, your ancestor did not hesitate to entrust power to a person with the public’s confidence. The country was saved, and the name of the Emperor Alexander I was not only written in golden letters on the pages of Russian history, but also world history. With all the fervor we can muster, knowing that patriotic duty rests on us all, we beseech you, Your Majesty, to follow your noble’s ancestor’s example. The midnight hour is upon us, and we’re almost at the point where any appeal to the people’s reason will be too late and useless.
Peter Cantropus, Orhan Gafarlı
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Nadezhda Udaltsova
Moscow, Russian Empire
Tomorrow riots are expected. Lord, may this all be over as soon as possible.
My salvation, my only salvation, is art. I'm still an amateur, but I will become professional. If there’s a magazine [willing to take me on], I’ll work a great deal for it.
Jernej Komac, Maria V. Zolotukhina
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Nicholas II
Petrograd, Russian Empire
I’ve suddenly come down with a heavy cold.
Jernej Komac, Orhan Gafarlı
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Nikolay Punin
Petrograd, Russian Empire
Only someone – and this is truly rare – who is a creative type of person but also thinks, lives and realises himself predominantly in picturesque forms, i.e. with paint, in spatial form and relationships etc., only that person can, through the result of their creativity, yield a painting that is pure.
Maria V. Zolotukhina
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27 February
Prokofiev tries to spend some time doing nothing, without success
“All Europe has gone off the rails and is careening into a ditch”
Opening of the last session of the last Duma of the Russian Empire
George Buchanan
4, Dvortsovaya embankment, Petrograd, Russian Empire (British Embassy)
On February 27 the Duma met, and the opening sitting, which I attended, passed off so quietly that I thought I could safely take a short holiday in Finland.
Taco Tichelaar, Nils Eivind Bjørnerud and 2 others
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Alexander Blok
Parohonsk, Brest uyezd, Belorussia
The scent of spring is with us for two days already. We saw off the final festivities of Maslenitsa with military precision – while exercising remarkable restraint from drink, we ate more than would feed an entire division, rode on our horses for miles and miles around snow-covered forests and plains, and billeted ourselves wherever we chose.