Soldiers fraternize with the public and the mood, in general, is improving. It is difficult to understand how all this will end. Take care of our son.
Jess Zilla
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Rurik Ivnev
Lahtinskaya street, Petrograd, Russian Empire
The soldiers have joined the people. Armed soldiers roam the streets in automobiles draped in red flags. The crowd greets them with a “hurrah” and people throw their caps in their air. A worker explains to an assembled crowd that he works from morning to night and still his family are dying of hunger. See more
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Leon Trotsky
Redaction of the "New World" magazine, Manhattan, 77, New York
Disorganised, compromised, fragmented government at the top, a completely crippled army, discontent, uncertainty and fear among the propertied class, a deep exasperation in the lower classes, an exponentially grown proletariat, hardened in the fire of current events—all this gives us the right to say that we are witnessing the beginning of the Second Russian Revolution. Let’s hope that many among us take part in it.
Orlando Da Rocha Hill
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George Buchanan
4, Dvortsovaya embankment, Petrograd, Russian Empire (British Embassy)
The old Government had ceased to exist, and all its members, with the exception of Pokrowski and of the Minister of Marine, Admiral Grigorowich, had been arrested. By the evening the whole garrison, as well as all the troops which had arrived from Tsarskoe and the neighbouring districts, had gone over to the Duma, while many officers had also offered their services. So far as Petrograd was concerned, the revolution was already an accomplished fact; but the situation was beset with colossal difficulties. The workmen were armed, numbers of released criminals were at large, in many regiments the soldiers were without officers, while in the Duma a sharp struggle was proceeding between the executive committee and the newly formed Soviet. See more
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Maurice Paleologue
4, Dvortsovaya embankment, Petrograd, Russian Empire (British Embassy)
During a day which has been prolific in grave events and may perhaps have determined the future of Russia for a century to come, I have made a note of one episode which seems trivial at first sight, but in reality is highly significant. The town house of Kchechinskaïa, at the end of the Kammenny-Ostrov Prospekt and opposite Alexander Park, was occupied by the insurgents today and sacked from top to bottom. I remember a detail which makes it easy to see why the residence of the famous dancer has been singled out by mob fury. See more
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Lili Dehn
Alexander Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire
Neither the Grand Duchess nor I could sleep, and we lay awake in the darkness talking in low tones. Occasionally I was silent, but, when this was so, Anastasienever failed to ask: See more
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George V
London, United Kingdom
Bad news from Russia, practically a Revolution has broken out in Petrograd and some of the Guards Regiments have mutinied and killed their officers. This rising is against the Government not against the war.
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12 March
It has begun!
“Today is one of Russia’s greatest and most joyous days”
“The world’s gone mad and is dying before our very eyes”
Leonid Andreyev
1, Moyka embankment, Petrograd, Russian Empire
Today is one of the greatest and most joyous days for Russia. What a day!
Marina Daiman, Kate Dohrti and 16 others
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Felix Yusupov
Rakitnoe estate, Kurskaya guberniya, Russain Empire
The world has gone mad and is dying before our very eyes.
Marina Daiman, Rafael Padial and 14 others
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Vladimir Mayakovsky
Citizens!
This is the first day of the workers’ deluge.
We come to the aid of the muddled-up world.
Let crowds rock the skies with their stamp and yelling!
Иван Петров, Marina Daiman and 19 others
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Alexandra Feodorovna
Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire
-9°C. I had lunch upstairs with Lily. Horrible things are happening in St Petersburg. Revolution.
Marina Daiman, Vladimir Okhnich and 3 others
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Nicholas II
Mogilev, Stavka, Russian Empire
Riots broke out several days ago in Petrograd; regrettably soldiers have begun taking part in them. A vile feeling to be so far away and to receive scraps of bad news.
Marina Daiman, Lisa Evreinoff Linker and 5 others
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Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich
Petrograd, Russian Empire
I went to the war minister and passed on through Nicky’s apparatus those measures that must be taken immediately as to calm the onset of the revolution, namely the resignation of the whole cabinet, and then entrusting Duke Lvov to chose a new cabinet at his discretion. I added that the answer should be given right now, since time does not wait, every hour is important. The answer was: do not make any changes before I arrive.
Marina Daiman, Lisa Evreinoff Linker and 2 others
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Mikhail Rodzianko
32, Kirochnaya street, Petrograd, Russian Empire
The Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich arrived in Petrograd, and we had a meeting with him in the company of the Chairman of the State Duma, his comrade Nekrasov, the secretary of the State Duma Dmitriyukov and member of the Duma Savich. See more
Letitia Rydjeski, Marina Daiman
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Boris Anrep with Anna Akhmatova
Anrepov's house, Ligovskiy avenue 3/9, Petrograd, Russian Empire
I don’t think much about the revolution. There is only one thought, one wish: to meet Anna Andreevna. I crossed the Neva on foot to avoid the barricades erected around the bridges. I remember a prison escapee, a boy aged about eighteen and seized by panic, who asked me for directions to the Varshavskiy train station. Staggering, I made my way to the house of Szreznevskiy, rung the bell and Anna Andreevna opened the door. “You? On a day like this? Officers are kidnapped on the streets”. – “I removed my epaulettes”. See more
Letitia Rydjeski, Lisa Evreinoff Linker and 6 others
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Olga Paley
Pashkovsky lane, 2, Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire
The ground is truly giving way underneath our feet. The prisons are wide open, and their malcontents have positioned themselves at the heads of political movements. Slowly but surely our regiments are going over to the enemy camp, and rumors abound that the First Infrantry Regiment billeted at Tsarskoye Selo has thrown in its lot with the rebels.
Marina Daiman, John Bessa and 5 others
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Aleksandr Kerensky
Shpalernaya, 47, the Tauride Palace, Petrograd, Russian Empire
The decision to create an Interim council with unlimited powers.
At 1PM the soldiers were still not there, thus, when somebody finally called out to me from the vestibule, announcing the arrival of the soldiers, I rushed to the window, barely believing in such an eventuality. See more
Alexander Kerensky, Greggery Peccary and 1 other
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Vladimir Mayakovsky
Petrograd, Russian Empire
I walked along side the motorcars toward the Duma. I popped into Radzianko's office. I inspected Miliukov. He was silent. But for some reason it seemed to me that he was stuttering. I was bored an hour later. I left.