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Tsar Nicholas II and the 1905 Revolution: The Bloody Sunday That Shook Russia
In January 1905, a peaceful procession of workers and their families marched to the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II. They were met not with dialogue but with bullets. Bloody Sunday shattered the myth of the tsar as a benevolent father to his people and ignited a revolution that would ultimately consume the Romanov dynasty. This episode unpacks the causes, key figures, and aftermath of the 1905 Revolution: from Father Georgy Gapon and the Assembly of Russian Factory Workers to the October Manifesto, the creation of the State Duma, and the rise of the…
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