Ge Hailun, Maria V. Zolotukhina
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Leon Trotsky
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Pacifist demonstration in Washington. 1917
America was busily getting ready for war. As ever, the greatest help came from the pacifists. Their vulgar speeches about the advantages of peace as opposed to war invariably ended in a promise to support war if it became “necessary.” It is a well-known axiom that pacifists think of war as an enemy only in time of peace.
Rafael Padial, Patrick Brown and 6 others
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Pablo Picasso
Italy, Roma, Via del Babuino, 9, Hotel de Russie
In Rome of an evening whores ply their trade in automobiles - at walking pace - they accost their clients with smiles and gestures and stop the car to negotiate the price.
Jernej Komac, Ge Hailun
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Vladimir Lenin Inessa Armand
Zurich, Switzerland
We have got to come out as strongly and bluntly as possible against the ridiculous pacifism of the French (achieving socialism without revolution, and so on) and the ridiculous belief in democracy.
Carol Mann, Rafael Padial and 6 others
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Nadezhda Udaltsova
82 apartment, 65, Smolenskiy blvd, Moscow, Russian Empire
We ran with Malevich and filed a transfer request for Moscow, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. It’s impossible to do anything alone but there’s no one else. Exter was sick. There’s some kind of emptiness and solitude, and we’re senselessly beating on the walls, and there’s no one there or left.
Nils Eivind Bjørnerud, Carol Mann and 3 others
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Vladimir Dzhunkovskiy
near Volno, Belorussia, Russian Empire
The most tragic incident occurred in the Kiev Grenadier Regiment, which I was part of not long ago. One of the regiment’s companies staged a mutiny. A bunch of scoundrels led by a volunteer, who managed to escape, snuck up to the dugout where the regiment commander and battalion commander sat, fired several shots through the window, followed by grenades. Mashkovskii, one of the officers, was killed on the spot and another four officers were wounded.
Jernej Komac
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25 February
Luminaries of the Russian avant-garde perform folk songs
The Lenten festival of Maslenitsa is celebrated in Russia
Stravinsky is commissioned to conduct his Firebird in Rome and Milan
Olga Rozanova
ap. 38, 10, Sadovo-karetnaya street, Moscow, Russian Empire
I have learnt a few folk songs and sometimes we get together and give them a bash. While I would hardly call my life monotonous, I am certainly working a lot, so I often get tired and am not feeling at my best. The cold weather continues to bear heavily on us. I will probably stay in Moscow over the summer, as I need to continue with my work. While it will almost certainly be hot and uncomfortable in the city, I really want to earn some more money.
Matt Kosko, Rafael Padial and 2 others
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Vera Sudeikina
Ekaterina's canal, Petrograd, Russian Empire
In the evening we’ll have pancakes.
Jernej Komac, Milica Mesterovic and 1 other
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Alexandre Benois
scenery sketches "Mardi Gras in St. Petersburg" for the ballets "Petrushka"
Petrograd, Russian Empire
Ge Hailun, Maria V. Zolotukhina and 1 other
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Ernest C. Warde
The premiere of a drama based Oliver Goldsmith's novel, the "Vicar of Wakefield"
Hollywood, USA
Kleber Oliveira
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Serge Diaghilev Igor Stravinsky
Rome, Italy
Would you like to conduct “The Firebird” and “Feu d’Artifice” at a charity concert to be held in Rome, Naples and Milan between the 9th and 26th of April? The Italian ambassador in Berne will be able to lend his assistance.
Rafael Padial, Maria V. Zolotukhina and 1 other
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Julius Martov
Zurich, Switzerland
Plekhanov has published a most curious interview in Jesolo. In it he assures his readers that Russian peasant women are so patriotic that they refuse to become engaged to those who return from the front without glorious tales of heroism. And so it goes, on and on and in equally jingoistic style.
Sebastian Clare, Maria V. Zolotukhina
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Leonid Andreyev
1, Moyka embankment, Petrograd, Russian Empire
Feeling rather despondent. Things at the newspaper are not so good, there is a lot of absurd editorial nonsense that would take too long to write about. Stupidity, too. This, together with the censorship, is making the paper very mediocre and childish. Too many sarcastic sketches. But we will continue to fight and not lose hope. I’m as stubborn as a mule in this sense: once I devote myself to something I don’t see anything else, and now, unless I am writing for Russkaya Volya or fighting with Russkaya Volya or talking about Russkaya Volya, I feel I have nothing to live for. It’s absurd!
Taco Tichelaar
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Ilya Ehrenburg
France
The Senegalese are getting on very well with the Russian soldiers. A shared child-like simplicity of spirit, naivety and kindness has brought them together. They spoke, as it were, over each other’s heads, not understanding a word and yet spending hours together communicating in smiles over bottles of beer. The good-natured Russians say: “don’t get hung up on his black skin. What kind of soul he’s got, that’s what you need to look at”.
Matt Kosko, Ge Hailun
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Boris Pasternak Rosalia Pasternak
Ushakovs' chemical plant, Tykhie Gory, Vyatsk guberniya, Russian Empire
Dear, dear Mama, I received your card, dearest! Why are you sad? Don’t be! These two months will fly by, and we will see each other in May. I’m feeling sad too. For some reason, for a week now, my work has not been going well. I thought I would have something to bring by spring, to make you happy. But it seems not. I am afraid of such blocks, for which only I myself am to blame. Something inside seizes up and I get stuck. I hug you tight and send kisses to Pappa, Shura and the girls.
Yours, Borya
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Amedeo Modigliani
paints "Renee"
Emil Gudo's square, 13, Paris, France
Leusa Araujo, Kleber Oliveira
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Elizaveta Naryshkina
Alexander Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire
The German scum are not letting up with their merciless war on shipping, sinking cargo and murdering innocent passengers. While they make no secret of their intention of dominating Europe and swallowing up the territories of Belgium, Poland, England and Russia one by one, while they stand united in their unshakeable egoism, here each of us thinks only of his own petty problems.
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24 February
Zinaida Gippius doesn't believe in revolution