Bloody Sunday (1905)
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Bloody Sunday, also known as Red Sunday, was the series of events on Sunday, 22 January 1905 in St Petersburg, Russia, when demonstrators, led by Father Georgy Gapon, were fired upon by soldiers of th
Crowd of petitioners, led by Father Gapon, near Narva Gate, St. Petersburg
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Georgy Gapon, a Russian Orthodox priest, led the workers' procession to present a petition to the tsar on January 22 [O.S. January 9] 1905, known as Bloody Sunday
Still from the Soviet movie Devyatoe Yanvarya ("9th of January") (1925) showing a line of armed soldiers facing demonstrators at the approaches to the Winter Palace in St Petersburg
Soviet painting of the Bloody Sunday massacre in St Petersburg
Nicholas II
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Nicholas II was Emperor of Russia from 1 November 1894 until his abdication in 1917. He was the last Russian monarch before the Russian Revolution and oversaw the Russian Empire's participation in Wor
Bloody Sunday (1905)
…led by Father Georgy Gapon, were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard as they marched towards the Winter Palace to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II. Bloody Sunday caused grave consequences for the tsarist authorities governing Russia: the events in St. Petersburg provoked public outrage and a series…
Nicholas in 1912
Nicholas II in Nikolo Tikhonov Monastery 01
Nicholas with his mother, Maria Feodorovna, in 1870
Nicholas with his cousin, George V of the United Kingdom (right), wearing German military uniforms in Berlin before the war; 1913