La Domenica del Corriere (The Sunday Courier) of March 25 to April 1, 1917, an illustrated weekly supplement to Corriere della Sera, published in Milan, Italy. The front and back covers are full-page illustrations by the great Italian illustrator Achille Beltrame. The front cover depicts Russian troops cheering the deputies entering the Duma after what the paper calls, 'the Russian revolt for freedom and the war.' The secondary story was on the fall of Baghdad to British troops.
a Domenica del Corriere25 Marzo — 1 Aprile 1917.L'insurrezione russa per la libertà e la guerra. Le truppe acclamano i deputati che entrano alla Duma.The Russian revolt for freedom and the war. The troops cheer the deputies entering the Duma.
"Saturday, March 31, 1917Anarchist propaganda has already contaminated the larger part of the front.From all quarters I am receiving reports of scenes of mutiny, the murder of officers and wholesale desertion. Even in the front line bands of private soldiers are leaving their units to go and see what is happening in Petrograd or at home in their villages."
Excerpt from the entry for Saturday, March 31, 1917, from the memoirs of Maurice Paléologue, French Ambassador to Russia in Petrograd, the Russian capital. In the course and immediate aftermath of the February Revolution, some officers were murdered, and some soldiers left the front.
An Ambassador's Memoirs Vol. III by Maurice Paléologue, page 277, publisher: George H. Doran Company
1917-03-31, 1917, March, anarchy, propaganda, mutiny, Petrograd, soldiers and Duma deputies
