A poet, a ballerina, a scientist, a writer, an officer and a peasant - how did all these people greet November 8, 1917?
119 years ago, on the night between November 7 and 8, the Red Guards stormed the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg and took the Provisional Government into custody. In 2017, writer Mikhail Ziger launched the project "1917. Free History" - a chronicle of events from November 1916 to January 1918 was published on his website in the format of social networks. The project was based on newspapers, memoirs, diaries, telegrams and letters from a variety of heroes - from military personnel and officials to artists and even farmers.
Read what all these people wrote the day after the capture of the Winter Palace.
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