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A site appeared on the network with the news feed of the diaries of Mayakovsky, Nicholas II and Pasternak
Former editor -in -chief of the rain television channel Mikhail Zygar launched the website “ 1917. Free History ”, where diary records of the main historical figures of those years that they could conduct in social networks are presented in the form of a news feed. The site will be updated daily. According to Zygar, the “posts” of the heroes are taken from their letters, telegrams and other archival data, the authors of the project did not add anything from themselves in the record.
-We wanted the user to have the opportunity to observe history and learn about historical events directly, without intermediaries: without a writer, director or some author who imposes his point of view.
Together with the project “Historical” news feed, where you can find out about the events of a hundred years ago were launched by the VKontakte social network. You can connect it by clicking on the link . The diary notes of Nicholas II and Grigory Rasputin, Vladimir Lenin and Leo Trotsky, Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Mayakovsky, Boris Pasternak, Ernest Hemingway and Albert Einstein will appear in it. The list of partners of the Zygar project indicates Sberbank, VKontakte, Dmitry Zimin Foundation, Moscow Culture Department, Tretyakov Gallery and Yandex.