Bloody Sunday Georgy Gapon

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22 january. father gapon near narva gate. unknown painter


father gapon, financial support of colonel motojiro akashi of imperial japanese army organised assembly of russian factory , mill workers of st. petersburg, patronized department of police , st. petersburg okhrana (secret police). assembly s objectives defend workers rights , elevate moral , religious status. person lead industrial workers capital of russia during year 1905. persons of russian orthodox denomination eligible join ranks. organisation had twelve branches , 8,000 members, , gapon tried expand activities kiev , moscow. gapon not obedient instrument of police; cooperating them, tried realise plan positive change of working class in russia.


from end of 1904, gapon started cooperate radicals championed abolition of tsar s autocracy.


on 22 january [o.s. 9 january] 1905, day after general strike burst out in st. petersburg, gapon organized workers procession present emotionally charged written petition tsar. demonstration ended tragically (bloody sunday 1905). gapon s life saved pinchas rutenberg, took him away gunfire , changed priestly garments common man s. became guest of maxim gorky.


following bloody sunday, gapon anathematized tsar , called upon workers take action against regime, after escaped abroad, had close ties socialist-revolutionary party. gapon , rutenberg welcomed in europe both prominent russian émigrées georgy plekhanov, vladimir lenin, peter kropotkin , french socialist leaders jean jaurès , georges clemenceau. found sanctuary in geneva , in london @ 33 dunstan house, stepney, anarchists peter kropotkin , rudolf rocker. after october manifesto, before end of 1905, gapon returned russia , resumed contact okhrana.








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