Anton Zotov
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Vladimir Lenin
Zurich, Switzerland
What a swine this Trotsky is—Left phrases, and a bloc with the Right against the Zimmerwald Left!! He ought to be exposed (by you) if only in a brief letter to Sotsial-Demokrat!...
Best greetings.
Yours, Lenin
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Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich
Kiev, Russian Empire
Dear Nicky, we are going through the most dangerous moment in the history of Russia: the question is, shall Russia be a great State, free, and capable of developing and growing strong, or shall she submit to the iron German fist?See more
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Vasily Maklakov
Petrograd, Russian Empire
The purpose of the state consists not in supplanting people’s endeavours and achievements, but in fostering the development of all aspects of the individual himself. To this end, it’s necessary to defend the individual against other people’s attempts to violate his liberty, and to champion equal “human rights” for everyone.
Anton Zotov, Pier Vegner Tosta
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Alexander Spiridovich
Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire
The significance of the role played by Vyrubova over the past two months has been underestimated. In the wake of Rasputin’s murder, she has become even more intimate with the Tsarina in honouring the memory of their late “Friend” – something that the adroit Protopopov grasps all too well. He has outflanked her, of course, bewitching her by dint of his veneration of the departed “Friend” and his supposedly “spiritual” connection with him – charlatanism pure and simple. And, thanks to Protopopov, Vyrubova has become a real mediator between him, the Minister of Internal Affairs and Their Majesties.
A. Vyrubova now serves as a kind of stand-in for the Royal Family’s relatives as well. Correspondence aside, they’ve maintained close ties only with the Emperor’s brother, Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich.
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Alexey Vasilyev
Rasputin's murder investigation
Petrograd, Russian Empire
“My dear fellow, help if you can. Grigory Rasputin”
Armed with this recommendation, provincials would normally seek an audience with the minister in question, firmly convinced that their request would immediately be granted. How great was their astonishment when they were turned away, the intervention of the omnipotent “elder” notwithstanding!
People often claimed that his interventions were successful when it came to borderline cases; I never believed such claims, however, and, though I’d investigate these rumours from time to time, I never found any conclusive evidence of their truthfulness.
Almost half of the people who sought help from Rasputin were poverty-stricken and therefore hoped to get some kind of financial assistance from him – not unreasonably so, since Rasputin never refused to help folk out with money.
Simple peasants would often come to see him for no reason other than to satisfy their curiosity, eager to speak with a man who’d managed to gain access to the tsar’s court despite being a simple muzhik. Rasputin normally received them with great cordiality and discussed their affairs at length, unmindful of the fact that far more important individuals were thus being kept waiting.
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Pathe News
King George V opens a new session of Parliament
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El Lissitzky
participates in the work of the national Jewish aesthetics club.
Moscow, Russian Empire
Elenaabout Gurdjieff
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Nicholas II
Alexander Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire
It’s a bright and frosty day. Voeikov and Sandro were here in the morning. I’ve had a walk . I’ve seen Belyaev and Fredericks. Maria and I had a stroll. I wrote to Georgie in English.
Elenaabout Gurdjieff
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16 February
Bertrand Russelclass="underline" “The current powers that be are the very embodiment of evil”
Nijinsky on his relationship with Stravinsky
Freud is dissatisfied with everything
Alexander Vertinsky
wrote the lyrics to the "Ball of the Lord"
Kislovodsk, Russian Empire
Olga Malkova, Marc Adam and 1 other
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Sergey Prokofiev
Apartment house, 122, Fontanka embankment, Petrograd, Russian Empire
Had my concert in Saratov. I almost didn’t leave Petrograd: central Russia is now enveloped in the most frightful snowstorms, and the drains are facing delays of up to 24 hours while the lines are cleared of snowdrifts. To make matters worse, all the most convenient trains have been reassigned for the delivery of supplies to the capital. It took us 48 hours, instead of the usual 36, to get to Saratov; I slept almost the entire way, which was a merciful relief from the exhaustion of life in Petrograd. In Saratov I walked along the frozen Volga, practiced some under-rehearsed passages and played through some of Rachmaninov’s news romances, which are very fine indeed.
Elenaabout Gurdjieff, Anton Zotov
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Sofia Tolstoy
Yasnaya Pol'yana, Tul'skaya guberniya, Russian Empire
Workers strike at a rifle factory in Tula. To buy anything they must queue in long lines, yet they are fined when late for work. Where is the justice?
Darine Elzein
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Bertrand Russell
London, United Kingdom
The present holders of power are evil men, and the present manner of life is doomed. To make the transition with a minimum of bloodshed, with a maximum of preservation of whatever has value in our existing civilization, is a difficult problem.
Kristen Michelle
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Vladimir Lenin
published "Proposed Amendments to the Resolution on the War Issue" in the "Volksrecht" newspaper.
Zurich, Switzerland
The party shall proclaim the socialist transformation of Switzerland. This revolution is the only, and really effective, way of liberating the working class from the horror of high prices and hunger, and is essential for the complete elimination of militarism and war.
Michelle Ort
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Maxim Gorky
Petrograd, Russian Empire
I work like elephant. Have caught a cold, lost my voice and I sneeze. But nothing of it!
Darine Elzein
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Vaslav Nijinsky
New York, USA
Children should always be with their mothers. I took my Kyra to America. Stravinsky saw me off at the station, and I gave him my hand very coldly. I did not like him then, and therefore wanted to show him this, bit he did not feel it because he kissed me. I had a nasty feeling. We stayed in America for a year and a half. Thinking that travelling with the child would be bad for her. I left her in New York. Stravinsky did not write to me, nor I to him. Already almost a year and a half I have heard nothing of him.
Elenaabout Gurdjieff, Taco Tichelaar
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