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Vasily Shulgin
Petrograd, Russian Empire
Milyukov has issued an open letter to the workers of Petrograd. A day previously, a “decree” was issued by General Khabalov, the Petrograd city governor. Strangely enough, the two documents were not greatly dissimilar. In some places, the two used similar arguments (“For the sake of the motherland”). And both the leader of the opposition and the city governor called on the workers to remain calm.
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Rurik Ivnev
alone
Lahtinskaya street, Petrograd, Russian Empire
Today is my birthday. But I’m keeping it to myself. Why should I remind myself and others once again of the impending end …
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Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich
Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire
I finally got an invitation from Alix for breakfast in Tsarskoe Selo. Those breakfasts! It seems half a year of my life has been lost at breakfast in Tsarskoye Selo!
Alix was in bed and promised to see me as soon as I was done eating. There were eight of us at the table: Nicky, myself, the Heir, the Emperor’s four daughters and an aide-de-camp. They were all in good spirits and completely ignorant of political events. See more
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Grand Duchess Olga
Alexander Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire
I’ve come down with an ear ache. Polyakov looked at it and said my middle ear is inflamed. I had breakfast with Papa. Mama is in bed.
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Pathe News
Boy scouts’ honor guard in Great Britain
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22 February
Conan Doyle is not impressed by the Russian political system
Trotsky falls out with American socialists after less than a month
A general in the Tsarist army, the future president of Finland, describes the situation in Petrograd
Alfred Knox
Petrograd, Russian Empire
I talked to Polivanov. He said the Ministry of Ways had been haggling over two years about the price of coal, and hence the miserable stuff that is ruining the engines. I asked him what he would do if dictator. He said he would call the best traffic managers together to consult. He would then place each main line under a dictator, who would have full powers on his line to hang or to do as he liked.See more
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Evening star
An appeal to French peasants of both sexes to help in solving the food problem has been issued by the ministry of agriculture and will be placarded in every country district. The appeal calls on the country people to sow as much grain as they can and wherever they can. so that "the sowings of the spring of 1917 may prepare the harvest of victory.” The document concludes: "To work then with all your energies. You are working for French victory and French peace. The country counts on”.
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Edvard Munch
paints "Nude from the back"
Ekely estate, Norway
Nils Eivind Bjørnerud, Kleber Oliveira
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Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich
Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire
Mikhail Alexandrovich and I spoke to his Majesty again. It was a waste of time. When it was my turn to speak I was so agitated I could not a say a word.
“Thank you, Sandro, for the letter you brought me from Kiev” – this was the only reply his Majesty gave to my many pages of advice.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
London, United Kingdom
Consider the awful condition of the world before this thunder-bolt struck it. Could anyone, tracing back down the centuries and examining the record of the wickedness of man, find anything which could compare with the story of the nations during the last twenty years! Think of the condition of Russia during that time, with her brutal aristocracy and her drunken democracy, her murders on either side, her Siberian horrors, her Jew baitings and her corruption.
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Julius Martov
Zurich, Switzerland
Trotsky is already in New York. I’d wager that within three months he’ll have quarrelled with the American socialists and gone off to form his own splinter group.
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Leon Trotsky
1522, Vyse Ave, Bronx, NY, USA
In ideas the Socialist party of the United States lagged far behind even European patriotic Socialism. In the United States there is a large class of successful and semi-successful doctors, lawyers, dentists, engineers, and the like who divide their precious hours of rest between concerts by European celebrities and the American Socialist party. See more
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Benito Mussolini
Ronchi, Italy
It happened during the bombardment of enemy trenches in Sector 144 – The Karst Sector, under a deafening hail of shells. Here, I experienced something that is commonplace in the trenches. A group of twenty of our men were hit by one of our own grenades. We were showered with mud, smoke and torn metal. See more
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Carl Mannerheim
Petrograd, Russian Empire
Of course it was impossible to keep track of the situation within the country while fighting on the front. Now, having spent a few days in the capital, I have heard of the most curious happenings. The State Duma, which was called up once again in November 1916, has been reverberating with revolutionary speeches. See more
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21 February
Trotsky describes pogroms in New York
Kerensky visits Zinaida Gippius
The Emperor sends his relatives away from Petrograd
The New York Times
PETROGRAD, Feb. 21. The question of railway construction on a large scale is occupying the attention of the Ministry of Ways and Communications and leading economists. The Ministry has drawn a scheme which is to be carried into effect after the war, but the whole matter has assumed a more urgent character owing to the application of a group of American capitalists for a concession to build a railway from Moscow to the Donets coal fields. See more
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Nicholas II
Alexander Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire
All day there was a blizzard and the trains everywhere were held up. I received four official visitors. I sat for a while with Alexei and went for a walk. Studied.
Nils Eivind Bjørnerud
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Maurice Paleologue
10, Kutuzova embankment, Petrograd, Russian Empire
After an interminable series of luncheons, dinners and receptions at the embassy, the Finance Ministry, the Franco-Russian Chamber of Commerce, the President of the Council's residence, the Town Council, the Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna's palace, the Yacht Club, etc., the foreign delegates are now returning westwards, via the ice-bound Arctic Ocean. See more
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Sergey Prokofiev
Nikolaevsky railway station, Moscow, Russian Empire
On the way back to St Petersburg. Have just got on the train. This time I am travelling third class, as first and second are all taken up by deputies of the State Duma and officers of the highest ranks. Nevertheless, it must be said that my fellow travellers are from the educated classes.
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