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22nd January 1905: Bloody Sunday massacre in Saint Petersburg
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:02:40
Publish Date: 2018-01-21 21:05:10
Description: On the 22nd January 1905, the Bloody Sunday massacre took place in the Russian capital Saint Petersburg. Soldiers of the Imperial Guard fired on protesters led by the Orthodox Priest Father Georgy Gapon as they marched towards the Winter Palace where they planned to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II. By 1905 there was growing discontent amongst the urban working class. Father Gapon had established the "Assembly of the Russian Factory and Mill Workers of the City of St. Petersburg" to promote workers’ rights in 1903, but after four Assembly members from the Putilov ironworks were sacked from their ...
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