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On Sunday January 22, 1905 striking workers and their families gathered at six points in the city of St. Petersburg. They were organized and led by father Gapon, holding religous icons and singing hymns as they marched down the street to the winter palace in protest. There was over 300,000 protesting that day. As they came closer to the palace, guards fired warning shots but when that didn't stop them they began firing derectly into the crowds. They shot at father Gapon but there was more than 40 people surrounding him that were killed but he was uninjured. The number of people that were killed and injured were uncertain. Gapon's Assembly was closed down that day, and Gapon quickly left Russia. When he returned in October he was assassinated by the Combat Organization of the Socialist Revolutionary Party after he had revealed to his friend, Pinhas Rutenberg that he was working for the Okhrana (Secret Police). This day is also considered the start of the active phase of the revolution.

media type="youtube" key="LQZLPV6xcHI?fs=1" height="385" width="480" This song was origanally made for the bloody sunday in Ireland but it has the same concept of the Russian bloody sunday.