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Injuries 439–800. Arrests 6,831. Bloody Sunday or Red Sunday [1] (Russian: Кровавое воскресенье, romanized: Krovavoye voskresenye, IPA: [krɐˈvavəɪ vəskrʲɪˈsʲenʲjɪ]) 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 ...
Bloody Sunday, (January 9 [January 22, New Style], 1905), massacre in St. Petersburg, Russia, of peaceful demonstrators marking the beginning of the violent phase of the Russian Revolution of 1905.
1905. Bloody Sunday Massacre in Russia. Well on its way to losing a war against Japan in the Far East, czarist Russia is wracked with internal discontent that finally explodes into violence...
Bloody Sunday 1905 began as a relatively peaceful protest by disgruntled steel workers, scores of whom were gunned down by tsarist soldiers.
Georgy Gapon, who led one of the marching columns, barely escaped death and had to go into hiding. At least 130 people died that day, according to official statistics, – though the papers ...
Bloody Sunday caused grave consequences for the Tsarist autocracy governing Imperial Russia: the events in St. Petersburg provoked public outrage and a series of massive strikes that spread quickly to the industrial centers of the Russian Empire.
On Jan. 22, 1905, soldiers of the Imperial Guard in St. Petersburg, Russia, fired upon demonstrators as they marched to the Winter Palace to petition Czar Nicholas II. The massacre would become...
