The weight on my soul is terrible. Not life, but a kind of nightmare." On the night of November 8, 1917, the Red Guards stormed the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. Read what our contemporaries wrote about these days.
In 2017, on the 100th anniversary of the February and October Revolutions, the first edition of the book "The Empire Must Die" by the journalist and writer Mikhail Ziger was published. At the same time, Seeger launched the project "1917. Free History" is "a network series, or reality documentary program with elements of historical literature, dramatic theater, television series and a modern social network". On the project's website, readers could follow the developments of events in real time from November 1916 to January 1918, when the Constituent Assembly was dissolved. Based on "1917. Free History" included newspapers, memoirs, diaries, telegrams and letters from a variety of heroes - from military personnel and officials to artists and even peasants. Read what they wrote on the day of the capture of the Winter Palace and the arrest of the Provisional Government 119 years ago. And you can learn about the events that led to two revolutions that changed Russian history from the book "The Empire Must Die" by Mikhail Seeger - this year our publisher published a new version of it.
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