November 7, 1917 in the diary of Zinaida Gipius: "I write on the day, that is. gray twilight - One pillow has already fallen on another: the city is in the hands of the Bolsheviks. At night, on the way from the Winter Palace, Kartshev and Halpern were stopped. They kept me in the Pavlovsk barracks for 4 hours, then released me, somewhat worn out. I continue with electricity. I dated Dimitri. We walked in the slate twilight along Sergievsky. Look, silence, silence, desolation, gray sour pillow. On the outskirts there are leaflets: announcing that "the government has been overthrown". They occupied the railway stations, Mariinsky Palace, telegraphs and printing houses of Russkaya Volya and Birzhevich. The electricity went out. It is now 19:40 in the evening. I continue with eagerness between the revolution and what is happening now, there is the same difference as between March and October, between the bright spring sky then and the dirty, dark gray, slimy clouds of today. at 10:00 p.m. Heavy firing from heavy guns was heard here. They read that cruisers coming from Kronstadt (among them and the Aurora, whose crew Kerensky took for his protection during the days of Kornilov) fired at the Winter Palace. It seems that the palace is already occupied. Whether the Per-Wu who was sitting there was arrested is still unknown. The city is in the hands of the Bolsheviks to such an extent that a "directorate" or something like that has already been appointed: Lenin, Trotsky - probably; and Rehovsky and others - according to rumors. I don't know anything else yet. (what else do you know, everything is clear).

November 7, 1917 in the diary of Zinaida Gipius: "I write on the day, that is. gray twilight - One pillow has already fallen on another: the city is in the hands of the Bolsheviks. At night, on the way from the Winter Palace, Kartshev and Halpern were stopped. They kept me in the Pavlovsk barracks for 4 hours, then released me, somewhat worn out. I continue with electricity. I dated Dimitri. We walked in the slate twilight along Sergievsky. Look, silence, silence, desolation, gray sour pillow. On the outskirts there are leaflets: announcing that "the government has been overthrown". They occupied the railway stations, Mariinsky Palace, telegraphs and printing houses of Russkaya Volya and Birzhevich. The electricity went out. It is now 19:40 in the evening. I continue with eagerness between the revolution and what is happening now, there is the same difference as between March and October, between the bright spring sky then and the dirty, dark gray, slimy clouds of today. at 10:00 p.m. Heavy firing from heavy guns was heard here. They read that cruisers coming from Kronstadt (among them and the Aurora, whose crew Kerensky took for his protection during the days of Kornilov) fired at the Winter Palace. It seems that the palace is already occupied. Whether the Per-Wu who was sitting there was arrested is still unknown. The city is in the hands of the Bolsheviks to such an extent that a "directorate" or something like that has already been appointed: Lenin, Trotsky - probably; and Rehovsky and others - according to rumors. I don't know anything else yet. (what else do you know, everything is clear).