Bloody Sunday
January 22, 1905 · St. Petersburg
On 22 January 1905, soldiers of the Imperial Guard fired on workers led by Father Georgy Gapon as they marched to the Winter Palace to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II. The massacre in St. Petersburg sparked the Russian Revolution of 1905.
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