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Up to Paul I (8th century-1796)

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(8th century - 1831; Russian facsimiles)
Collection of Russian Literature.
(Russian)
Adjudant highlights Russian military history with documents and first-hand accounts.
Search the site.
Read more about the project here.
Includes:
Materials such as eyewitness accounts from wars, memoirs, and military rule books.
Library with memoirs.
(17th-20th century; Russian transcriptions)
Various decrees, letters, accounts, and other documents relating to Austria-Russia union.
(1759-1887; Russian translations and transcriptions)
Open-access newspapers from Peter the Great to the fall of the Romanovs (mainly from St. Petersburg and Moscow).
A joint project of the Center for Research Libraries and East View Press.
(1782-1918; Russian facsimiles)
Battle plans, discussion of troops and weapons, personal letters from generals to empress.
(1784-1800; modern Russian translation)
Documents related to the Russian Church and Native Alaskans]
(1784-1915; Old Russian facsimiles)
Collection includes 41 manuscripts such as political cartoons
From the Digital Bodleian
(Russian facsimiles)
"Meeting of Frontiers is a bilingual, multimedia English-Russian digital library that tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest."
(18th-20th century; English and Russian)
From the Rare Book and Special Collections Reading Room comes a selection digitized manuscripts from Slavic countries
In cooperation with Library of Congress
(18th-19th century; Russian facsimiles)
12 digitized books and manuscripts from Russia
In cooperation with the Library of Congress
(18th-19th century; Russian facsimiles)

Paul I (1796-1801)

Orders and letters of the emporer.
(1796-1801; commentaries, transcription in modern Russian)
Complete collection of Paul I's laws from 1796-1797. Ability to search by law number and navigate pages.
(6 November 1796-31 December 1797; pre-Soviet Russian facsimile)
Forbade peasant labor on Sundays.
(5 April 1797; Russian facsimile and transcription)
Paul I outlines succession rules. This act lasted until the end of the monarchy in 1917.
Modern Russian translation also available here.
(7 April 1797; Old Russian transcription, modern Russian translation)
(June 30, 1797; Russian transcription)
The beginning of the "General Heraldry of the noble families of the All-Russian Empire" was laid by the decree of Emperor Paul I (1754-1801).
From the New York Public Library
(1798; facsimile; Russian)
Maps of Napoleonic war, Crimean war, Russo-Turkish war, and Russo-Japanese war.
(1799-1904; commentaries, maps, facsimiles in Russian)
Military actions, marches, and orders regarding Circassian people.
(1800-1914; Russian transcription)
Russian publications provided by the University of Illinois. Divided into categories:
(English, Russian)
Letters, orders of Emperor, manifestos, treaties, and other documents regarding international relations of Russian Empire.
(1800-1809; commentaries, images, transcription in Russian)
(1801; images, modern Russian transcription)
Article incorporates quotes from pertinent documents, testimonies, and memoirs about the murder of Paul I.
(1801; commentaries, modern Russian transcription)

Alexander I (1801-1825)

Paul I's eldest son, Alexander I, takes the throne.
(12 March 1801; Old Russian facsimile, modern Russian transcription)
Legal act establishing Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Public Education. Also reaffirms existing ministries.
(8 (20) September 1802; Old Russian facsimile, modern Russian transcription)
Articles discuss conditions of release of peasants and rights of both peasants and landlords.
(1803; Russian transcription)
Includes photo facsimiles of treaty.
(14 May 1805; Russian facsimiles; English translation)
Economic, political, ethnographical discussion of Kamchatka .
(1806-1807; Russian commentaries and transcription)
(January 26-27, 1807; Russian transcription)
Description of capture of Anapa fortress in Russian-Turkish war of 1806-1812.
(May 11, 1807; image, Russian transcription)
Speranskiy wrote this because of the order of Aleksandr I.
(1808; Russian transcription)
Alexander I declares Finland part of Russia without waiting for the end of the 1808-1809 Russia-Finland War.
(5 (17) June 1808; Old Russian facsimile, modern Russian translation)
Documents discuss Russian relations with Napolean before war and at beginning of war.
(1808-1812; Russian transcription)
Treaty between Sweden and Russia.
(September 17, 1809; French)
Letters, orders of Emperor, manifestos, treaties, and other documents regarding international relations of Russian Empire.
(1810-1819; commentaries, images, transcription in Russian)
Order outlining the establishment of the state council in Russian Empire.
(January 1, 1810; facsimile, transcription in Russian)
Treaty ending war between Britain and Russia.
(August 17, 1812; English)
Treaty ended war of 1806-1812 between Russia and Turkey.
(16 (28) May 1812; Old Russian transcription, modern Russian translation)
Online archive about the Russian war against Napoleon. Divided into sections:
(18th and 19th centuries; Russian)
Primary texts include journalism, memoirs, and travel accounts.
From the Slavic and East European Library
(19th century; English and Russian)
By Baron Lejeune. This battle took place when France invaded Russia.
From The War Times Journal
(1812; English translation)
Structure of Russian Army, list of its members.
(1812; Russian transcription)
(1812; Russian transcriptions)
(1812 - 1813; Russian transcription)
Document includes quotes from memoirs of Moscow occupation and exit.
(1812; image, Russian translation)
Manifesto marks the end of Russia's war with Napoleonic France, also known as the War of 1812.
(25 December 1812; Old Russian facsimile, modern Russian transcription)
(1812; images)
(1812; Russian transcription)
(1813; images)
Treaty between Russia and Persia.
Lead to inclusion of modern Azerbaijan, Daghestan, and Eastern Georgia in Russian Empire.
(12 October 1813; Russian transcription)
Suggestions for taking Constantinople from Ottoman Empire.
(1815-1816; Russian transcription)
Detailed information about inspection.
(1819; commentaries, transcription in Russian)
Letters (both personal and political), memoirs, orders of Emperor, and documents of Decembrists and other social societies.
(1820-1829; commentaries, images, transcription in Russian)
Pavel Pestel's criticisms of government and proposals for division of government power.
(beginning of 19th century; commentaries, Russian)
Images of leaders of various sociopolitical movements.
(1820s - 1880s; images)
Political documents, letters and decrees.
(19th century; English translation)
Draft of constitution by Pavel Pestel. Outlined policies for Southern Society of the Decembrists.
(1824; modern Russian translation)

Nicholas I (1825-1855)

Manifesto of Nikolai I as well as his personal letter to political figures describing Decembrist revolt.
(1825; Russian transcription)
Charter was called "cast iron" and forbade criticism of the government, proposals for reforms, and discussion of foreign policy issues.
(10 (22) June 1826; Old Russian transcription, modern Russian translation)
Two depiction of factory where Decembrists were exiled.
(1826; image)
Orders and responsibilities for gendarmerie.
(1826-1827; French and Russian transcription)
Treaty was the result of 1826-1828 war between Russia and Persia. As a result, Persia ceded control of territory in the Caucuses to Russia.
Modern Russian translation also available here.
(10 (22) February 1828; Old Russian transcription, modern Russian translation)
Site contains a document from the Russo-Turkish war: orders and reports of the captain and awards to the officers of brig Mercury.
(May 18, 1829; images, transcription in Russian)
Turkish document describes bravery of Mercury captain and crew in Russo-Turkish war.
(May 27, 1829; Russian transcription)
Treaty determines borders and territories between the two empires.
(2 (14) September 1829; Old Russian transcription, modern Russian translation)
National minority policies of the Emperor.
Letters (both personal and political).
(1830-1839; commentaries, images, transcription in Russian)
Book offering an inside view of Tobol'sk, considered the founding city of Siberia.
(1830; Book facsimile)
National anthem of the Russian Empire. Adopted in 1833 until 1917.
(Russian with English translation; 1833)
Album of 32 original watercolors depicting scenes of everyday life and various historical themes in Tobol'sk Province.
(19th century; facsimile paintings)
Documents discuss immigration of Orthodox people from Turkish lands to the Russian Empire.
(1837- 1838; commentaries, transcription in Russian)
Observations of Circassian people and culture.
(1837; English facsimile)
  • Journal of a Circassian residence, 1837-1839
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Published 1840. Letters accounting stay in Circassia.
(1837-1839; English facsimiles)
Large compilation of European primary documents. Topics include prelude to war, road to war, world at war, war poetry, home front, towards a conclusion and aftermath.
(1839-1919; English transcriptions and translations)
Book. Travel to Southern Russia and Crimea, through Hungary, Wallachia and Moldova.
(1840; French facsimile)
National minority policies of the Emperor.
Letters (both personal and political).
(1840-1849; commentaries, images, transcription in Russian)
Letters of the revolutionist-anarchist.
(1849-1861; Russian transcription)
Primary source posters of Russian cultural, social and political history.
Russian interface; also available in German.
(1850-2004; images)
Transcaucasian policies of Emperor.
Manifestos and international treaties.
Letters (both personal and political).
(1850-1859; commentaries, images, transcription in Russian)
(1850s - 1870s; images)
Manifesto written in a time of economic pressure from England and France.
(14 June 1853; Old Russian transcription, modern Russian translation)
From the Connecticut Common School Journal: Reports on Education in Europe at JSTOR.
(1853; English)
Diaries and letters from the English side of the war.
(21 September 1854 - 19 October 1855; English transcriptions)
”William Howard Russell was a correspondent for the London Illustrated News and was present at the battle. It was his description that prompted Tennyson's poem. “
EyeWitness to History
(1854; English transcription)
Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Japan and Russia
(1855; English translation)

Alexander II (1855-1881)

Treaty ending the Crimean War.
Agreement between Austria, France, Great Britain, Prussia, Russia, Sardinia, and Turkey about peace, borders, war prisoners, and trade between countries.
Includes agreements about Black Sea and Danube use as well as territorial changes.
Modern Russian translation also available here.
(30 March 1856; Old Russian transcription; modern Russian translation)
The Treaty of Shimoda opened Japan for Russia, but in 1857, the Russians expanded their relations with the Japanese with a supplementary treaty.
(1857; English translation)
Documents of social and political changes in Empire, cases of gendarmerie against regime, and letters (both personal and political).
(1860-1869; commentaries, images, transcription in Russian)
From New York Public Library
(1860- 1945; photos and manuscript facsimiles)
In this manifesto, Alexander II frees the serfs of Russia.
Modern Russian translation also available here.
English translation available here.
(19 February 1861; Old Russian facsimile, modern Russian translation)
(1 January 1864; Old Russian transcription)
(20 November (2 December) 1864; Old Russian transcription)
Did away with 1857 censorship laws.
(6 April 1865; Old Russian transcription, modern Russian translation)
Government acts regarding the Caucasian and Transcaucasian regions.
12 volumes, each including "documents of the reign of a Caucasian Vicar."
A "history of the peoples of the Caucasus: the Arab chronicle, firmans , gudzhary (charters) and other instruments, mainly the XIV - first half XIX centuries on the Georgian , Armenian , Russian , Arabic , Persian , Azerbaijani , Turkish language with Russian translation and genealogies of local khans and sultans."
(1866-1904; Russian transcript, download as PDF)
Conditions of the sale, territories, and life of Alaskan inhabitants.
(June 20, 1867; Russian)
International treaties and documents regarding judicial system, military situation
(1870-1879; commentaries, images, transcription in Russian)
Programs, manifestos, proclamations, letters, and cases of revolutionary organizations.
(1870-1880; facsimiles, transcription in Russian)
(16 (28) June 1870; Old Russian transcription)
Gorchakov discusses Russia's role in the Black Sea region, Moldavia, and Wallachia.
(19 (31) October 1870; modern Russian translation)
Previously the "noble gentry" was excused from military service.
(1 (13) January 1874; Old Russian facsimile)
Russia and Austria-Hungary agreed to this treaty in Budapest.
Both parties agree not to expand military operations and pledge mutual support in the case that the Ottoman Empire collapsed. Austria-Hungary agrees to be neutral in the case that Russia has another war with the Ottoman Empire.
(15 January 1877; Russian transcription)
Image of Optician’s shop in Saint Petersburg.
(1877; images)
(1877-1878; images, facsimiles, commentaries, transcription in Russian)
Information about political situation in Russian Empire.
(1877-1917; commentaries, transcription in Russian)
Ended Russian-Ottoman war of 1877-8.
Serbia, Romania, and Montenegro receive independence from the Ottoman Empire (previously had autonomous status).
Bulgaria, Bosnia, and Herzegovina gained autonomy.
Turkish troops withdraw from Bulgaria and Russia.
English translation available here.
(19 February (3 March) 1878; modern Russian translation)
Documents of investigation, interrogation, and testimony of anti regime movements.
International treaties.
(1880-1889; commentaries, images, transcription in Russian)
Alexander II created the Guard of Public Order as a reaction to terrorist attacks by Narodnaya Volya.
(12 February 1880; Old Russian transcription, modern Russian translation)
Conditions for Russian people in the Iliyskiy District, which goes under Chinese government rule.
(24 February 1881; transcription in Russian)

Alexander III (1881-1894)

Alexander II was killed on 1 March 1881.
(29 April 1881; Old Russian transcription, modern Russian translation)
Account by Ilya Surguchev, who grew up with Nicholas II, and wrote this account near the end of his life.
(1881-1917; modern Russian transcription)
Agreement between European powers on the partition of West Africa.
(February 26, 1885; English)
Poll tax had been collected since Peter I.
Exception of Siberia, which would be subject to the poll tax until 1899. Also exceptions of Altai district, the Yakutsk region, Kirensk district, Turukhansk region, Narym region, Berezovsky disctrict, and Surgut district.
(14 June 1885; Old Russian transcription, modern Russian translation)
Set procedures for hiring and firing workers. Forbade paying workers with anything other than money and vouchers that employees could use in employer's shop. Forbade charging workers for medical care, use of workshops, and production machinery.
Allowed employers to collect fines from workers for misbehavior.
Set punishment for organizing a strike at up to one year and fourth months in prison, and participation from 4 to 8 months.
Old Russian transcription also available here as a PDF.
(3 June 1886; Old Russian transcription, modern Russian translation)
Russian Minister of Education Count Ivan Davidovich Delianov recommends conditions that exempt institutions of secondary and higher education from admitting the children of "coachmen, footmen, cooks, laundresses, small shopkeepers and similar people" with the exception of particularly brilliant children from parents of these occupations. The intention was to limit the education of population groups driving the revolutionary movement.
Modern Russian translation also available here.
(18 June (1 July) 1887; modern Russian translation)
Account of close friend of Tsarina Alexandra, Nicholas II's wife. Part II includes Dehn's account of the 1917 Revolution, in which she was with the Tsarina.
Lili Dehn includes correspondence written by her and Tsarina Alexandra during the 1917 Revolution.
(1888-29 November 1917; English translation)
Treaties, policies, political party programs, manifestos, letters, and ambassadors' messages.
(1890-1899; commentaries, images, transcription in Russian)
Illustrated guide of the Great Siberian Railway. Includes history of Siberia, information about construction of the railroad, and a list of cities and towns along the route.
(Late 19th - early 20th centuries; Book facsimile)
Documents, testimonies, and maps from the construction.
(1891-1916; Russian facsimiles)
Original pictures from the construction.
(1891-1916; commentaries, facsimiles in Russian)

Nicholas II (1894-1917)

Account by Ilya Surguchev, who grew up with Nicholas II, and wrote this account near the end of his life.
(1881-1917; modern Russian transcription)
Tsarist Russia in the photos of Maxim Dmitriev.
(1891-1904; photos, Russian interface)
(1894; images)
Diary entries (with notes clarifying old language) from 1894-1896, 1904-1907, and 1913-1916.
Also available as a PDF here.
Transcription available here for 1894-1906 (includes Old Russian, French, and German entries).
Also see Nicholas II's Nicholas II's 1918 diary.
(1894-1916; modern Russian translation)
Site includes large selection of primary source documents, including investigation documents regarding the murder of the Romanovs, diaries and letters, and eyewitness accounts of palace life from the last days of Nicholas II's reign.
The site also includes a large selection of photos of the palace from Nicholas II's era.
(1894-1922; photos, English interface and translations)
(1894-1899; Russian transcription)
”Mary kept a detailed journal of her experiences as she transitioned from life in Czarist Russia to American citizen. “
EyeWitness to History
(1894; English transcription)
Discusses burning of documents supporting Marxist economics.
(10 May 1895; Russian transcription)
Extracts Related to Imperial Life and the Palace
See also His Letters
From the ALEXANDER PALACE TIME MACHINE
(1895-1912; English translation)
Approved by HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR
From Alexander Palace
(26 November 1895; English translation)
By the Chancery of the Committee of Ministers, St. Petersburg. This version was written primarily for the English diplomatic corps.
From the ALEXANDER PALACE TIME MACHINE
(1896; English transcription)
Mainly police reports.
(23 December 1896 - 27 December 1900; English translations)
(1897; Russian)
Letters, manifests, and reports from both Nicholas II's government and rebels.
(1 March 1898-27 December 1905; Russian transcriptions)
From the digitized documents at the Government Archive of the Russian Federation.
Photos 1899-1900.
Photos 1907-1908.
Photos 1914-1916.
(1899-1900, 1907-8, 1914-6; Photos, Russian interface)
Manifesto of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Removes local legislation from Grand Duchy of Finland.
(15 February 1899; English translation)
(1899-1905; Russian transcription)
The Emperor's Illness and the Succession Question from The Memoirs of Count Witte
From ALEXANDER PALACE TIME MACHINE
(1900; English translation)
The memoirs of Mossolov, head of the Court Chancellery from 1900 until 1916.
(1900-1916; English translation)
Letters, orders, manifestos, and court cases from the period.
(1900-1910; Russian transcription)
Memoirs and links to genealogical information on White Guard members.
(1900-1991; Russian transcriptions)
Volume I, The Russian Provinces
(1901; English translation)
The Eastern European Collection brings together, in digital form, primary and secondary materials relating to the study of this region including its history, literature, language, political science and more.
Search the full text or browse the collection.
(19th - 20th centuries; Book and journal facsimiles)
Letters and other various documents from 20th century Russia.
(20th century; Russian transcriptions)
Written by Boris Savinkov, memoirs discuss terrorist actions in Europe.
(1902-1909; Russian transcription)
Responsibilities of employers and rights of workers.
(June 2, 1903; Russian transcription)
Compiled by Alpha History.
(1903-1930; English translations)
Video of sea battle.
(1904-1905; Russian facsimiles)
Collection of illustrated journals from the early twentieth century.
(1904-1917; Russian facsimiles)
Eyewitness accounts to the Battle of the Yellow Sea and the Battle of Tsushima
From The War Times Journal
(1904-1905; English translation)
(February 1904 - September 1905; English translations)
(February 1904 - September 1905; Russian transcriptions)
Collection of footage documenting the Czar's family
Compiled by British Pathe
(1905-1933; English interface; videos)
End of the war between Russia and Japan. Text of treaty in a contemporary newspaper article.
(1905; English)
A collection of pre-Revolution satirical magazines.
(1905-1917; Old Russian facsimiles)
Nicholas II's diary entries from 1905-1918. Includes notes clarifying old Russian language.
Available in Old Russian here.
English translation of selected 1917 entries available here.
(1 January 1905-30 June 1918; modern Russian translation)
First document from the revolution of 1905-1907, petition a result of Bloody Sunday.
(22 January 1905; Old Russian facsimile, modern Russian translation)
Czar Nicholas' response to attempted revolution.
(August 19, 1905; English translation)
Treaty signed at the end of the 1904-1905 war between Russian and Japan, which Russia lost.
(23 August (5 September) 1905; Old Russian transcription, modern Russian translation)
Divided power between czar and State Duma, making a Russia a constitutional monarchy. Russia's first constitution.
(17 (30) October 1905; Old Russian newspaper facsimile, modern Russian translation)
Manifesto includes new social changes. English translation available here.
(October 17, 1905; Russian facsimile)
Color photographic surveys of the vast Russian Empire.
Digitized from the Library of Congress
"Frequent subjects among the 2,607 distinct images include people, religious architecture, historic sites, industry and agriculture, public works construction, scenes along water and railway transportation routes, and views of villages and cities."
(1905-1915; searchable database of facsimiles)
An account by a lady-in-waiting and close friend of Tsaritsa Alexandra Fyodorovna.
Account also available here.
Her 1917 interrogation is available here.
(1905-1917; English translation)
(20 February (5 March) 1906; Old Russian facsimile, modern Russian translation)
Declaration made by former members of disbanded First State Duma.
(July 22, 1906; Russian)
English translation, including migration statistics, available here.
(9 November 1906; Old Russian transcription, modern Russian translation)
By Francis McCullagh. Being the story of an Irishman who rode with the Cossacks throughout the Russo-Japanese War
(1906; English facsimile)
(1906; English translation)
By Margaret Eager, governess to the children.
(1906; English)
Agreement between England and Russia about Persia.
(1907; English transcription)
"Russian Social-Democrat from 1890s, active in international Socialist Women's movement, and a member of the Mensheviks before 1914. Elected to Central Committee in 1917 and Commissar for Social Welfare in the Soviet government."
(1907-1946; English translation)
by Alexander Spiridovitch
From ALEXANDER PALACE TIME MACHINE
(1909; English translation)
Consolidating Russian control.
Also available in French.
(30 June 1910; English translation)
Personal Valet to Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna
(1910-1918; English translation from French)
(1911; Old Russian transcription)
Mnahem Beilis was a Jewish man wrongly accused of murder as a result of antisemitic policies in Russia.
(1911-1913; modern Russian translation)
(1912; images)
"All the year 1912 was spent by me in Russia - a year of great happiness to me and one of the most agreeable of my life."
From the Alexander Palace Time Machine
(1912; English transcript)
"I wrote this book during the troubulous nights when the Zeppelins were threatening London and the adjacent counties. While I was writing I was entirely undisturbed by the thought of danger."
(English)
A London newspaper clipping of the announcement of the Tsarevich's diagnosis
(1912; English facsimile)
Glimpse into the life of the Tsarevich
From the ALEXANDER PALACE TIME MACHINE
(1913-1916; English translation)
  • Letters of the Grand Duchesses
Letters of Grand Duchess Anastasia
Letters of Grand Duchess Maria
Letters of Grand Duchess Tatiana
From the ALEXANDER PALACE TIME MACHINE
(1913-1917; English and Russian)
Video of battles and Russian Army troop images.
(1914-1916; Russian facsimiles)
The Kaiser's letters to the Tsar, copied from the government archives in Petrograd, and brought from Russia
(1914; English translation)
Compiled by Alpha History.
(1914-1917; English translations)
Published in 1919.
(1914-1917; English edition)
Documents include facsimiles of letters, military IDs, orders.
Ability to search the archive.
Also includes photos, stories about specific individuals.
(1914-1917; photos, Russian facsimiles)
Include previously unpublished private and military photos from a German officer's collection.
Photos include background information.
(1914-1917; Photos, English interface and captions)
Include previously unpublished private and military photos from a German officer's collection.
Photos include background information.
(1914-1917; Photos, English interface and captions)
Documents events from before Sarajevo until after Versailles.
(pre-1914 - post-1918; translations and transcriptions)
Expansive resource.
Treaties, orders, and other World War I documents.
(1914-1918; images, commentaries, transcription in Russian)
A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
(1914-1918; transcriptions and translations)
(20 July (August 1) 1914; Old Russian facsimile, modern Russian translation)
First-hand account of Nicholas II during WWI from 1914-1917 from Hanbury's diary entries.
(August 1914 - 22 April 1917; English translation)
(1 August 1914-November 1918; images, Russian facsimiles)
From Tsar Nicholas to his wife Alexandra written during WWI
Her Answers Back
From the ALEXANDER PALACE TIME MACHINE
(1914-1917; English translation)
Includes clarifying notes with historical background.
(21 September 1914 - 7 March 1917; English translations)
RASPUTIN AS KNOWN TO THE SECRET POLICE
From the ALEXANDER PALACE TIME MACHINE
(1 January 1915-10 February 1916; English translation)
Excerpts provide insight to Nicholas II's level of political influence and power from 1915 to 1917.
(12 May 1915 - 17 February 1917; English translations)
By figures such as ANDREI VLADIMIROVICH and NIKOLAI MIKHAILOVICH
From the ALEXANDER PALACE TIME MACHINE
(1915; English translation)
Photos of the family and their servants.
(1916; photos)
An anonymous Polish landowner's account of Russian incursions into Austro-Hungarian held Czernowitz during the June 1916 Brusilov Offensive led by Alexei Brusilov
(1916; English translation)
Intimate Correspondence of the Yussupovs
From the ALEXANDER PALACE TIME MACHINE
(1916; English translation)
By Princess Paley
(1916-1919; English translation)
Notes from the assassination, which Yusupov helped plan. Notes were published in 1926 from Paris about the 1916 assassination.
(30 December 1916, published 1926; Russian transcription)
From Florence Farmborough, With the Armies of the Tsar: A Nurse at the Russian Front in War and Revolution
Made available by Women in World History
(1917; English transcription)
(2 January 1917 - 30 June 1918; modern Russian translation)
(February-October 1917; Russian transcription)
Account of the turbulence of the last days in Nicholas II's Romanov Imperial court. Written by Count Paul Benckendorff, minister to Nicholas II.
First-hand account, also includes photographs of subjects mentioned.
(1917; photos, English translation)
Following arrest and torture, her interrogation conducted by the provisional government.
Anna Vyroubova was a lady-in-waiting and close friend of Tsaritsa Alexandra Fyodorovna.
Vyroubova wrote a memoir, "Memories of the Russian Court".
Memoir also available here.
(6 May 1917; English translation)
Includes the manifesto of Nicholas, the abdication of NICHOLAS II and MICHAEL ALEXANDROVICH, and the arrest of NICHOLAS ROMANOV and OTHER MEMBERS OF THE ROMANOV DYNASTY.
From the Alexander Palace Time Machine
(1917; English translation)
Act of abdication as a result of uprising.
(2 March 1917; Old Russian transcription, modern Russian translation)
Signed by Russian officials following the abdication of Nicholas II.
Also available in Russian.
(20 March 1917; English translation)
(1917; images)
Journalist John Reed ”joined the assault on the Winter Palace and later wrote of his experience.”
EyeWitness to History
(1917; English transcription, photographs)
  • 1917 Diaries & Letters
Nicholas II - Abdication and Beyond
Letter from Dowager Empress Marie in exile to Nicholas II
Letters from Aleksey in Exile
Letters of Alexandra from Exile
Letters of Maria from Exile
Letters of Nicholas II from Exile
Letters of Olga from Exile
Letters of Tatiana from Exile
Lettters from Anastasia in Exile
From the ALEXANDER PALACE TIME MACHINE
(1917; English and Russian)
Newsreel footage from the days immediately following the October take-over, including clips from the Winter Palace, Bolshevik headquarters at the Smolny Institute, and selected revolutionary leaders.
(1917; English interface; video)
Compiled by Alpha History.
(March 1917-November 1917; English translations)
(May 1917; images)
Interrogation conducted by the provisional government.
Count Frederiks or Freedericksz was the imperial household minister under Nicholas II from 1897 to 1917. His duties included administration of Nicholas II's family's personal affairs and living arrangements and awarding of Imperial honors and medals.
(2 June 1917; English translation)
Includes testimonies from the prisoners' cook, her assistant and the watchman.
(July 1917; English translation)
Last letter Nicholas II got by his mother.
Dowager Empress Marie tells Nicholas II how his relatives are faring and complains her current ordeal. She "live[s] only in [her] memories of the happy past and tr[ies] as much as possible to forget the present nightmare."
(21 November 1917; English translation)
This selection of key British Pathé newsreels represents some of the finest contemporary reporting on the 1917 Russian revolution. The films have been organised by topic and are presented on a single navigable page for the first time.
Compiled by British Pathe
(1917; English interface; video)
Autobiography of the man who killed Rasputin. Begins with the Golden Horde of the Tartars and ends in exile.
(English translation)

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