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Bloody Sunday (Russian: Кровавое воскресенье, romanized: Krovavoye voskresenye, IPA: [krɐˈvavəɪ vəskrʲɪˈsʲenʲjɪ]), also known as Red Sunday (Russian: Красное воскресенье), [1] was the series of events on Sunday, 22 January [O.S. 9 January] 1905 in St Petersburg, Russia, when unarmed demonstrators, led by Father Georgy Gapon, were fired upon by ...
Graves of the victims of Bloody Sunday at Preobrazhensky Cemetery near St. Petersburg [39] The royal government became aware of the content of Gapon's petition no later than on January 7. [40] On that day Gapon appeared at the reception of the Minister of Justice N. V. Muraviev and handed him one of the lists of the petition.
On 22 January [O.S. 9 January] 1905, known as "Bloody Sunday", a peaceful procession of workers was fired upon guards outside the tsar's Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg. Widespread demonstrations and strikes spread all over the empire, which were brutally repressed by the tsar's troops.
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The result of the violent revolt of the protest would be known as "Bloody Sunday". [6] The violent reaction to the protest increased the tension throughout Russia further. Unrest amongst the Russian people followed Bloody Sunday. By the thousands people refused to go to work and general strike crippled the Empire. [7]
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Here are some of the key dates in the decades-long campaign for justice by the families of civilians killed by soldiers on Bloody Sunday in January 1972. – January 30 1972
After Bloody Sunday in January, large instances of rebellion exploded throughout the country, initiating the 1905 Revolution. The revolution forced the reactionary Tsar to make concessions, and in October he issued a manifesto granting some civil liberties to prevent the nation from slipping into chaos, trying to 'pacify' the country.