Bloody Sunday. Shooting workers near the Winter Palace. Painting by Ivan Vladimiriv. Painted 1917. Bloody Sunday , 22 January 1905 in St Petersburg, Russia, when unarmed demonstrators, led by Father Georgy Gapon, were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard as they marched towards the Winter Palace to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.

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