There are no fresh lemons to be found anywhere in the market. There are frozen lemons, but these of the most limited quantity and moreover with a price from 65 to 70 rubles for the box. Mandarins are out. No pineapples either.
Marianna Potanovicova
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Mikhail Rodzianko
32, Kirochnaya street, Petrograd, Russian Empire
Our nation has everything it needs, but is not able to make adequate use of its resources. The census has shown that the area of land under cultivation in 1916 was approximately 20-25% more than the area required to meet the needs of the population. Russia has enough grain resources to face the future with equanimity. If all this rich potential not being exploited, it is because the country lacks the appropriate organisation.
Taco Tichelaar, Vitor de Vile
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Maurice Paleologue
10, Kutuzova embankment, Petrograd, Russian Empire
The work of the conference is dragging on to no purpose. No practical result has emerged from all the diplomatic verbiage. To take one example, we are trying to find a formula asking Japan to accelerate her assistance!
The technical munitions and transport committee alone is doing anything useful, but the requirements of the Russian General Staff exceed anything we had anticipated and its demands even exceed its requirements. To my way of thinking, it is not so much a matter of knowing what Russia needs as of ascertaining what she is capable of putting to good use. What point is there in sending her guns, machine-guns, shells and aeroplanes, which would be so valuable to us, if she has neither the means of getting them to the front nor the will to take advantage of them?
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06 February
Trotsky on New York: “Cubism reigns supreme on the streets, and the philosophy of the dollar reigns supreme in people’s hearts.”
Fitzgerald. “To use an exclamation mark is like laughing at your own joke.”
The daughter of Tsar Nicholas II has her hair washed and curled
Elizaveta Kuzmina-Karavaeva
16, Kovensky sidewalk, Petrograd, Russian Empire
All over the vast Russian plain, in stuffy freight vans and comfortable apartments, in the severe northern capital and the endless southern steppes, people have been saying the same thing: “A storm is on its way”. But despite this, they have not let down the ship’s anchor or lowered the sails. And the motley people of Russia, scattered throughout the cities and countryside, have felt no desire to stop the wind, or to fight the storm. Their hearts have been crushed by the suffocating atmosphere of recent years; their reason clouded by the poisonous vapours of blood.
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Princeton, USA
Cross out every exclamation mark. To use an exclamation mark is like laughing at your own joke.
Hugo Greenhalgh
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Pathe News
Pleasures Of A Seaside School
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Nicholas Roerich
at work on "Clouds over islands"
Izvara estate, Russian Empire
Marianna Potanovicova, Manuel Fajardo and 1 other
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Leon Bakst with Serge Diaghilev
Paris, France
I’m going to be painting decorations in Rome for two or three weeks with Diagilhev. Thinks could certainly be better as orders are few in these uncertain times. We haven’t heard anything out of Russia for a long time.
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Le Corbusier
Opens the "Society of projects and of research in industrial enterprise"
29, Rue d'Astorg, Paris, France
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Ivan Bunin
26, Povarskaya street, Moscow, Russian Empire
We are all going to Crimea (and we all do so in vain). As soon as we get there, I will immediately sit down to work.
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Konstantin Somov with Alexandre Benois
38, 1st line of Vasilyevsky Island, Petrograd, Russian Empire
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Macaroni sellers. Naples, Italy. Between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900
Had dinner at seven with Benois. Gorky, who I found most agreeable, was also there. He told us the most engaging stories of Naples, Capri and Pompei, and of the morals, traditions and celebrations of the people there.
Spyros Marchetos
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Grand Duchess Olga
Alexander Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire
Went straight to the infirmary. There was not much to do. Wrote, straightened beds, etc. The Romanian king had breakfast with us. Before 3 set off for a walk with father. It was twelve or thirteen degrees below freezing. We went round the garden. After tea Alexei watched a cinematograph film. T and I had our hair washed and curled. Nothing happened. Father wrote in his album. We went to bed at 11 as usual.
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Leon Trotsky
1522, Vyse Ave, Bronx, NY, USA
Here I was in New York, city of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automatism, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city in the world, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.
Taco Tichelaar, David Chytil and 1 other
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Arthur Conan Doyle
London, Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex
Is it not possible in any way to hold in cheek the vile women who at present prey upon and poison our soldiers in London ? A friend of mine who is a Special Constable in harlot-haunted district has described to me how these harpies carry off the lonely soldiers to their rooms, make them drunk often with the vile liquor which they keep there, and finally inoculate them, as likely as not, with one or other of those diseases which, thanks to the agitation, of well-meaning fools, have had free trade granted to them amongst us. Our present policy is to shut the museums — the most pitiful economy ever effected by a great nation — but to keep open the brothels. The lad from over the seas who has for the first and perhaps for the last time in his life a few clear days in the great centre of his race, cannot carry away any recollections of its treasures of art and antiquity, but is forced into contact with what is least reputable in our metropolitan life. All honour to the Union Jack Club, the Y.M.C.A., and all the other associations which try to mitigate this state of affairs, but it is a case for general legislation and not for sporadic individual effort. It will be a poor return for what our Colonies have done for us if we return their splendid lads the worse in body and in Soul.
Yours faithfully,
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.
Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex.
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05 February
Romain Rolland: “One of the saddest days of this terrible epoch”
The weather and lack of fuel may leave Russia’s major cities without bread: where is this all leading?
A major entrepreneur confidentially discloses rumours about a plot in the Imperial Guard
Alexander Spiridovich
Hotel "Continental", Kiev, Russian Empire
Tereshchenko has arrived from Kiev, where he’s been thick with Count Dolgoruky. There, in Kiev, the two friends pleasantly whiled away the time in the Continental Hotel, discussing current events. Tereshchenko took Count Dolgoruky to one side and informed him that he was leaving for Petrograd, where calls would start to be made for the Emperor’s abdication. The Empress, meanwhile, would be confined to a monastery. He told him, too, that officers from His Majesty’s Own Regiment and Convoy were implicated in the plot, naming names and even the name of one commander. The coup had been arranged for February 21. When asked by Count Dolgoruky what would be done if His Majesty refused to abdicate, Tereshchenko replied that he would be removed… Tereshchenko departed.