Taco Tichelaar, Rafael Padial and 6 others
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Sergey Prokofiev
Apartment house, 122, Fontanka embankment, Petrograd, Russian Empire
Today I went to a concert at the Marinskii, but the theatre was two thirds empty. Apparently there'd been a deliberate shooting on Nevsky and music lovers decided not make the journey along Nevskii to the concert.
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Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholas II
Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire
My darling Papa, dearest one. I am sitting in a darkened room with Olga and Tatyana. They send you big kisses, they are lying down and not doing anything in particular. They both have a slight temperature. I have not been in to see Alexei, as he was still asleep. Maria and I are still well, and sitting with everybody in turn. I wonder when I will fall ill and which of us will fall ill first - myself or Maria?!
I love you terribly and send you big hugs and kisses! God bless you.
Lori Stuart
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
White House statement that Wilson has power to arm and inference that he will use it. J. D. Josephus Daniels says that he will use it by Monday. Why doesn’t President say so without equivocation?
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Nicholas II Alexandra Feodorovna
Mogilev, Stavka, Russian Empire
My brain is able to rest here; there are no ministers or troublesome questions requiring deliberation. I feel this is good for me, but only for my brain. My heart suffers from our separation. I hate to be separated, particularly now, at this time! I shall not be away for long. I shall do all I can sort out matters here, and then I shall have done my duty.
Lori Stuart
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Maurice Paleologue
10, Kutuzov embankment, Petrograd, Russian Empire
This morning the excitement in industrial circles took a violent form. Many bakeries were looted, especially in the Viborg Quarter and Vassili-Ostrov. At several points the Cossacks charged the crowd and killed a number of workmen.
Lori Stuart
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Free Trader-Journal
Huge Animal Fights With Regiment on French Front
Petrograd. Fighting with the Russian army In France is a huge bear from the Caucasian mountains, who seems to enjoy his sojourn on the French front fully as much as his masters enjoy theirs. He Is the mascot of one of the Russian regiments that were transported halfway round the world from the Russia to the French front to show the solidarity of the allies. When the time comes for the bear’s regiment to go to the front line treaties for its six days of duty the bear goes along. He keeps the all night vigils with the sentries, and as there is nothing else to eat but the regular rations brought up from the rear he permits the soldiers to divide their share with him.
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08 March
Something is beginning, something bad!
The affectionate correspondence of the Tsar and Tsaritsa
Prokofiev describes the beginning of demonstrations in Petrograd
Vladimir Lenin Inessa Armand
Zurich, Switzerland
Dear Friend,
I haven’t heard from you for a long time.
I suppose you don’t feel like working on the translation of the leaflet into English? In that case, drop it: I’ll send it as it is to Paris, maybe they’ll find some Englishman there.
All the very best,
Yours,
Lenin
Chiara Zavarka, Dale Urie and 1 other
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Amedeo Modigliani
paints "Portrait of a Woman in a Black Tie"
Emil Gudo's square, 13, Paris, France
Sara Lomasz Flesch, Gloria V Nijensohn Stokol and 5 others
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Alexandre Benois
38, 1st line of Vasilyevsky Island, Petrograd, Russian Empire
Something is awry! Large-scale rioting happened on the Vyborg side due to bread difficulties (it is surprising that this has not happened earlier!).
Paul Rou, Julio Mariutti and 1 other
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Zinaida Gippius
Sergievskaya 83, Petrograd, Russian Empire
There have been disturbances today. Of course, nobody knows anything for sure. Tramcars have been stopped in some places (and smashed). it seems a policeman was killed. If everything calms down again tomorrow and we start to put up with things once again - in typical Russian fashion, dully, unthinkingly and silently - then it will not make the slightest bit of difference in the future.
We rioted without dignity and will succumb without dignity. But the attempts to “thwart” us will be just as feeble as our rioting. Which of these two feeble forces will be victorious?
My poor country. Come to your senses!
Letitia Rydjeski, Brooke McMurray and 4 others
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Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
has finished painting "Noon"
Letitia Rydjeski, Sara Lomasz Flesch and 6 others
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Vasily Kravkov
7th Siberian army corps
Some kind of curse seems to hang over the Russian souclass="underline" as soon as one of our number is given authority, he immediately imagines himself to be a “servant of the Tsar”, and in such a way feels justified in making his presence felt as strongly as possible by those under him. What is worse, this tendency is observed even among highly educated individuals in the pedagogical and religious communities. This passion for lording it over our inferiors is sadistic!
Nell Rapport, Dale Urie
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Sergey Prokofiev
Apartment house, 122, Fontanka embankment, Petrograd, Russian Empire
I saw a crowd gathering on the Anichkov Bridge. Judging by their short coats and heavy boots they seemed to be mainly workers.
A woman with a very stupid expression, completely failing to understand the general atmosphere, called on the crowd to “beat the yids”. See more
Letitia Rydjeski, Rafael Padial and 3 others
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Sofia Tolstoy
Yasnaya Pol'yana, Tul'skaya guberniya, Russian Empire
Tanya had been in Tula and was in low spirits when she returned: there was talk of revolution, there was nothing to buy; no bread, no kerosene and shops were closing down.
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Alexandra Feodorovna
Alexander Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire
Ah my love, how sad its without you – how lonely, how I yearn for your love and kisses, priceless treasure, think of you without end.
Lori Stuart
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George Buchanan
4, Dvortsovaya embankment, Petrograd, Russian Empire (British Embassy)
With the fatality that dogged his footsteps the Emperor, who had spent the months of January and February at Tsarskoe, feeling that he could no longer absent himself from Headquarters, had returned to Mohileff — more than twenty hours distant by train — on Thursday, March 8. Had he remained at Tsarskoe a few days longer, within reach of those who could have kept him accurately informed of the development of events in the capital, he would have been better able to appreciate the extreme gravity of the situation.
Nick Short, Nell Rapport and 4 others
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Mathilde Kschessinska