The boy has fallen ill - a new worry for the Empress! The weather is very good these days. I’ll take a carriage for some fresh air.
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Grand Duchess Olga with Tsarevich Alexei
Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire
Buried myself in magazines again. At 2.30 went for a walk with Father. Six degrees of frost. Aleksey is still bedridden. He feels very poorly. At 6 I went to see Anna, and until 7.45 we sat very comfortably by the fire. Mother is very tired.
Carlos Olaaka
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Feodor Chaliapin
sings an aria as Philippe II in "Don Carlos" by Verdi
Moscow, Russian Empire
Anton Zotov, Manuel Fajardo
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Irina Yusupova
Rakitnoe estate, Kurskaya guberniya, Russain Empire
I can’t bear to look at another deck of cards again, and yet I can’t tear myself away from them! The situation is hopeless. But you shouldn’t think that I spend all my time at solitaire; sometimes I knit scarves. I’ve even finished one.
Anton Zotov, Carlos Olaaka
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The New York Times
PETROGRAD, Feb. 11 (via London). Eleven members of the workmen’s group of the Central Military and Industrial Committee of Petrograd have been arrested, charged with belonging to revolutionary parties and fomenting a labor movement with the ultimate aim of transforming Russia into a Social Democratic republic. This official announcement was made today.
Taco Tichelaar
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10 February
Receiving the chairman of the Russian parliament, the Emperor is unusually cold and abrupt
“The situation is critical. If railway transport is stopped for two weeks there will be a famine. There is already no flour here.”
A chance to hear the voice of Fyodor Chaliapin, the most famous bass opera singer of the early 20th century
Yevgeny Vakhtangov
3, Mansurovsky lane, Moscow, Russian Empire
Whichever university you may have graduated from, whatever you do in life, however rich you are, you will always be poor as long as you do not welcome art.
Kenneth Whyte, Lozz ODozz and 2 others
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Feodor Chaliapin
performing at the premiere of the opera "Don Carlos"
The Bolshoi Theatre, 1, Teatral'naya ploshchad', Moscow, Russian Empire
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Nikolay Gumilyov
Petrograd, Russian Empire
Is placed under arrest for twenty four hours for failing to salute a superior
Edwin Pace
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Maxim Gorky
23, Kronversky ave., Petrograd, Russian Empire
At yesterday’s meeting on defence in the Mariinsky Palace the minister for transport presented his report: supplies of fuel for the Nikolaevsky Railway will be exhausted in four days, and the situation on other railways is no better; some railways are down to two days’ worth of fuel! This is why goods are not getting into the city. There are 36,000 wagons full of various goods and foodstuffs stranded along the lines, but there are no locomotives to move them, and where locomotives can be found the majority are not in working condition. The situation is critical. If railway transport is stopped for two weeks there will be a famine. There is already no flour here.
Taco Tichelaar
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Alexander Guchkov Nikolai Golitsyn
Petrograd, Russian Empire
I am not going to play games with you. If you suspect us of being engaged in politics, I will not dispute it for a minute. Yes, we are involved in politics, but it is the government that has turned us into a political organisation. We think the question of defence can only be resolved if the political conditions of our work are altered.
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Edvard Munch
paints "Nude in the mirror"
Ekely estate, Norway
Ольга Асафова
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Nadezhda Udaltsova
82 apartment, 65, Smolenskiy blvd, Moscow, Russian Empire
What is it that binds wealth of spirit with poverty? After all, it’s not difficult to obtain a comfortable style of life, but by God is it dull.
I’ve got a large canvas ready, something will come of it, although I’m sick of anything which is not painting in its purest of forms. I’m happy only with pure colours and materials and the like. Well, something will come of it.
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Mikhail Rodzianko
32, Kirochnaya street, Petrograd, Russian Empire
I had an audience with the Emperor again. He received me with such extreme coldness that I could not set out my case in the course of a conversation, as I usually do, but instead began to read out the written report. His Majesty’s reaction was not only indifferent, but even abrupt. All the time I was reading the report, which concerned poor supply of provisions to the army and towns, the issuing of machine guns to the police and the general political situation, his mind was elsewhere. This is the way things are at the moment.
Taco Tichelaar
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Nicholas Roerich
at work on the painting "Karelian landscape"
Izvara estate, Russian Empire
Julián Huertas, Edwin Pace and 1 other
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Maurice Paleologue
10, Kutuzova embankment, Petrograd, Russian Empire
I am told that during his visit to Petrograd, Bratiano has sounded the Emperor as to his ultimate consent to the marriage of the Grand Duchess Olga to Prince Carol, the presumptive heir. The idea of this union has been mooted several times before. The Emperor's answer was quite encouraging: "I shall have no objection to the marriage if my daughter and Prince Carol find they suit each other."
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Nicholas II
Alexander Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire
This evening I read and helped Mary with a puzzle.
Julián Huertas
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09 February
The Grand Duchess Olga helps perform an operation on a wounded man
Trotsky tries to prevent the USA from joining the war
A famous Russian ballerina continues her tour of America
Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich
Kislovodsk, Russian Empire
I have been here for six days, far away from earthly cares in the peaceful mountains and valleys of the Caucasus. I am resting, both physically and mentally. It is a selfish feeling, but so pleasant to belong entirely to oneself sometimes, and to live as one wants, and not as one is ordered to do.
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Wassily Kandinsky
Finland
Leaving for his honeymoon
Elena Kl
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Anna Pavlova
Cuba
Travelling to Cuba
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Julius Martov with Leon Trotsky
Zurich, Switzerland
I have found out that Trotsky has been rather active in the anti-war campaign which has recently begun in America, writing several articles for newspapers and speaking at meetings. Incidentally, it seems he has started calling himself, in the English manner, “Leo N. Trotzky”.
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Grand Duchess Olga
Alexander Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire