Postcard view of the Kremlin in Moscow with the broken Tsar or Royal Bell on the left and the Savior's Tower and Kremlin wall to the right.
Kremlin, Place Impériale. Moscou.Reverse:Offert par la V.P.C. Robert Laffont — Droits réservés.
"Now that food has grown scarce in Petrograd and Moscow, disorder takes the shape of riots and insurrections. We are told that mobs of the lower classes parade the streets shouting 'Peace and Bread!' They are aware that the war is at the root of their hardships. So it is: 'Peace and Bread!' But as the days pass, hunger gains primary place and the erstwhile docile rabble grow unruly and rampageous. They no longer bother about peace; their empty stomachs warrant no rival. So it is only 'Bread!' 'Give us Bread!'"
Undated excerpt from the diary of Florence Farmborough, an English nurse serving with the Russian Red Cross, writing around early February (mid- to late-January Old Style), 1917. She had been taken very ill in September, 1916, and was only recently back near the front. The winter of 1916–17 was bitterly cold, affecting the Russian transport system and its supplies to the front and the cities. Hunger preyed on the soldiers and citizens in Moscow and Petrograd.
Nurse at the Russian Front, a Diary 1914-18 by Florence Farmborough, pp. 254–255, copyright © 1974 by Florence Farmborough, publisher: Constable and Company Limited, publication date: 1974
1917-02-18, 1917, February, Moscow snow
