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The "Bloody Sunday" Of Saint Petersburg!
On January 9, 1905 (our calendar) an unauthorized demonstration moved from the suburbs to the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg. The crowd counts in tens of thousands, many women and children, mostly members of the poorer classes, and they are by no means up to revolt or revolt!
On the contrary, the demonstrators lead - as can be clearly seen in the next pictures! - Russian flags, church banners and icons with them, but also self-made banners with “work and bread” and similar slogans on them.
They want to ask for more humane working conditions, agricultural reforms, the abolition of censorship and religious tolerance. The demonstrators also called for the creation of a real representative body.
The crowd is led by the socially committed priest Grigorij Apollonowitsch Gapon ...
The people would like to hand over a petition - written by Gapon - to the almighty tsars, as the already poor living conditions have seriously deteriorated again due to the Russo-Japanese war.
What the crowd does not know: Tsar Nikolaj II. ...
... doesn't even stay in the Winter Palace, but stays in Tsarskoe Sselo (= "Tsar's Village"), a palace complex about 40 kilometers from the capital (today the place is called "Pushkin").
When the crowd entered the Narva Gate at lunchtime ...
... and to get to the city center, troops open fire without warning and shoot into the crowd ...:
There are dead and injured ...
... but the train marches on, towards the Winter Palace. When the people reach the Senate Square in front of the Winter Palace ...
... guards mercilessly shoot the crowd together!
When the people want to flee in a panic, they are attacked from behind by Cossacks who had previously been posted in side streets ...:
The result is a bloodbath!
Officially, 96 dead and 333 injured are officially admitted - in reality the number of deaths is much higher - contemporary estimates vary between at least 1,000 and over 4,000 victims!
In recent times there have been efforts by interested parties to count down or to estimate the number of victims ...
The later assertion that the absent Tsar only found out about all of this afterwards is a myth!
Wherever Nikolai II was staying, he was connected by telegram to all important points in the capital - it is at least not unlikely that he gave the order to shoot himself, or - more likely - that the Governor General of Saint Petersburg, General Dmitrij Trepov ...
... did and the tsar approved it beforehand.
By the way:
The most famous photo that is supposed to show "Bloody Sunday" is a fake! It was provided by the Bolsheviks in 1925 ...:
Since January 9th, the Tsar has been called "Nikolaj the Bloody" by many ...:
This "Bloody Sunday" shakes Russia to its foundations! Strikes and workers' unrest spread like wildfire, and the first mutinies broke out in the army and navy.
In particular, the soldiers from the army and navy who are fighting in the Russo-Japanese war are wondering why they should continue to hold out their bones for a government that has its wives and children slain at home.
The bloody revolution of 1905 cannot be stopped now ...
The demonstration has an entirely different aftermath:
It turns out that the priest Grigory Gapon is not only a socially committed person, but also an agent of the notorious tsarist secret police Okhrana. Whether out of naivety, ambition, delusion or even as a paid agent provocateur is never clarified.
From now on, underground revolutionaries ruthlessly hunted Gapon, finally found him - and hanged him on April 10, 1906! (Police photo) ...:
On January 9, 1905 (our calendar) an unauthorized demonstration moved from the suburbs to the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg. The crowd counts in tens of thousands, many women and children, mostly members of the poorer classes, and they are by no means up to revolt or revolt!
On the contrary, the demonstrators lead - as can be clearly seen in the next pictures! - Russian flags, church banners and icons with them, but also self-made banners with “work and bread” and similar slogans on them.
They want to ask for more humane working conditions, agricultural reforms, the abolition of censorship and religious tolerance. The demonstrators also called for the creation of a real representative body.
The crowd is led by the socially committed priest Grigorij Apollonowitsch Gapon ...
The people would like to hand over a petition - written by Gapon - to the almighty tsars, as the already poor living conditions have seriously deteriorated again due to the Russo-Japanese war.
What the crowd does not know: Tsar Nikolaj II. ...
... doesn't even stay in the Winter Palace, but stays in Tsarskoe Sselo (= "Tsar's Village"), a palace complex about 40 kilometers from the capital (today the place is called "Pushkin").
When the crowd entered the Narva Gate at lunchtime ...
... and to get to the city center, troops open fire without warning and shoot into the crowd ...:
There are dead and injured ...
... but the train marches on, towards the Winter Palace. When the people reach the Senate Square in front of the Winter Palace ...
... guards mercilessly shoot the crowd together!
When the people want to flee in a panic, they are attacked from behind by Cossacks who had previously been posted in side streets ...:
The result is a bloodbath!
Officially, 96 dead and 333 injured are officially admitted - in reality the number of deaths is much higher - contemporary estimates vary between at least 1,000 and over 4,000 victims!
In recent times there have been efforts by interested parties to count down or to estimate the number of victims ...
The later assertion that the absent Tsar only found out about all of this afterwards is a myth!
Wherever Nikolai II was staying, he was connected by telegram to all important points in the capital - it is at least not unlikely that he gave the order to shoot himself, or - more likely - that the Governor General of Saint Petersburg, General Dmitrij Trepov ...
... did and the tsar approved it beforehand.
By the way:
The most famous photo that is supposed to show "Bloody Sunday" is a fake! It was provided by the Bolsheviks in 1925 ...:
Since January 9th, the Tsar has been called "Nikolaj the Bloody" by many ...:
This "Bloody Sunday" shakes Russia to its foundations! Strikes and workers' unrest spread like wildfire, and the first mutinies broke out in the army and navy.
In particular, the soldiers from the army and navy who are fighting in the Russo-Japanese war are wondering why they should continue to hold out their bones for a government that has its wives and children slain at home.
The bloody revolution of 1905 cannot be stopped now ...
The demonstration has an entirely different aftermath:
It turns out that the priest Grigory Gapon is not only a socially committed person, but also an agent of the notorious tsarist secret police Okhrana. Whether out of naivety, ambition, delusion or even as a paid agent provocateur is never clarified.
From now on, underground revolutionaries ruthlessly hunted Gapon, finally found him - and hanged him on April 10, 1906! (Police photo) ...:
