Bloody Sunday (1905)
Bloody Sunday (Russian: Крова́вое воскресе́нье; ) was a massacre on 22 January 1905 in St. Petersburg, Russia, where unarmed, peaceful demonstrators marching to present a petition to the Tsar Nicholas II were gunned down by the Imperial Guard while approaching the city center and the Winter Palace from several gathering points. The shooting did not occur in the Palace Square. Bloody Sunday was an event with grave consequences for the Tsarist regime, as the disregard for ordinary people shown by the massacre undermined support for the state. The events which occurred on this Sunday have been assessed by historians, including Lionel Kochan in his book Russia in Revolution 1890-1918, to be one of the key events which led to the eventual Russian Revolution of 1917.
Read more about Bloody Sunday (1905): Bloody Sunday, The St. Petersburg Workmen's Petition To The Tsar
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