WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Georgy Apollonovich Gapon (17 February [O.S. 5 February] 1870 –10 April [O.S. 28 March] 1906) was a Russian Orthodox priest and a popular working-class leader before the 1905 Russian Revolution. After he was discovered to be a police informant, Gapon was murdered by members of the Socialist Revolutionary Party.

Detailed explanation-2: -It was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire, some of which were directed at the government. Vladimir Lenin called the 1905 Revolution “The Great Dress Rehearsal", without which the “victory of the October Revolution in 1917 would have been impossible".

Detailed explanation-3: -Gapon prudently retreated abroad, while a wave of protests and strikes across the country built up into a full-blown revolution which presently forced Nicholas II to issue the October Manifesto, promising to introduce democracy. Gapon returned and was murdered by a government agent.

Detailed explanation-4: -This demonstration of factory workers was brutally put down by Russian soldiers. Up to 200 people were killed by rifle fire and Cossack charges. This event became known as Bloody Sunday and is seen as one of the key causes of the 1905 Revolution.

Detailed explanation-5: -Russian Revolution of 1905, uprising that was instrumental in convincing Tsar Nicholas II to attempt the transformation of the Russian government from an autocracy into a constitutional monarchy.