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Georgy Apollonovich Gapon

Георгий Аполлонович Гапон
Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) Russia Ukraine 1870–1906 ✕ Murdered

The priest who led the march, and ended a double agent

After Bloody Sunday, Gapon wrote: "We no longer have a tsar. Today a river of blood divides him from the Russian people. It is time for the Russian workers to begin the struggle for the people's freedom without him."

On January 9, 1905, he led 150,000 workers in a petition march to the Winter Palace, where troops opened fire. He survived to write "We no longer have a Tsar," but when his double game with the police came to light, SR combatants hanged him the next year.

Career timeline
  • 1902–1904Organizes the police-sponsored Assembly of Factory Workers
  • 1905.01.09Leads the Winter Palace petition march, Bloody Sunday
  • 1905–1906Exile; contacts with the revolutionary parties
  • 1906His police ties exposed; hanged by SR combatants
Scenes Bloody Sunday