Victor’s Diary

Victor Stember began this diary in Petrograd in October 1918, at the age of 55, in the midst of revolution — “these records are destined not for the future historian, but for my children and my grandchildren.” He kept it until days before his death in January 1921. The hand-written diary was translated from Russian into English by Olga A. Fuhrman, and is published here in full by his family.