Bloody Sunday on 22 January 1905 was the massacre of peaceful and unarmed protestors by soldiers outside the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia. The crowd of workers and their families were led by Father Georgy Gapon (1870-1906), who had wanted to present Tsar Nicholas II (reign 1894-1917) with a petition for reforms. Over 1,000 people were killed, and many more were wounded in the incident.
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22 Jan 1905Bloody Sunday in 1905, when peaceful demonstrators against the Tsar's authoritarian rule were fired upon and massacred in St. Petersburg.
