Scary Bloody Sunday in 1905 did not happen suddenly.It was preceded by the movement of the workers and peasants, and in many regions of the country during the whole of 1904.In December, the strike in Baku has led to a contract with the owners of the plant.It discusses the wage increase, the reduction of working hours, annual leave and other matters.At the Putilov strike began January 3, January 8 acquired universal scale.
And events of the next day, January 9, and preserved in history as "Bloody Sunday", marked the beginning of the revolution, which lasted two and a half years.Its development involves several steps.
Thus, the prologue of the revolution was the Bloody Sunday and the general strike in St. Petersburg.Under the leadership of Gapon, trying to somehow repay the uprising, the workers of factories of St. Petersburg made a petition, which requested to improve their financial situation (to make shorter working hours, annual leave and provide other benefits).Were the requirements and political: to introduce democratic freedoms (conscience, speech, immunity), to convene a Constituent Assembly by a secret and equal vote.
this petition workers went to the king, confident of his mercy and justice.The Social Democrats were unable to dissuade any Hapon from conception, nor the soldiers not to shoot at the workers.The authorities were aware of the preparation of the march, about the content of the petition, but do not let all this openly.However, on 7 and 8 January at a meeting of the chief of the city, they discussed in detail the location of the king's troops.Svyatopolk-Mirsky, reported to Nicholas II on the measures that are taken, after which he went to Tsarskoye Selo.
columns headed Gapon, there are 140 thousand workers.They kept the icons, a portrait of the king, singing prayers and moved to the center of St. Petersburg.Circuit soldiers met the demonstrators outside the Winter Palace first blank volleys, and then shooting people "armed" only the icons but the banners.
In other areas of the city workers is also not spared.As a result, Bloody Sunday had been killed over a thousand people and wounded - five thousand.Such a cruel and senseless violence with people who went to the king with trust and peaceful intentions (including women, children and the elderly), has caused indignation Russian living abroad.Allegations that the king was not in the capital and did not give the order to shoot, did not help.And in the evening January 9 Bloody Sunday was a continuation: the workers in the afternoon began to build barricades were first erected on Vasilyevsky Island.Demonstrators still quite peaceful in the morning, the evening has aggressively attacked the weapon shops, police stations, on the policemen.The process has developed very rapidly.It was clear that the Bloody Sunday of 1905 - only the beginning of a great revolution.
answer to crime authorities began protests involving thousands of demonstrators have 440.Their main slogan was the call "Down with autocracy!".Strikes occurred in all the major cities.In Ivanovo-Voznesensk it was created by the Board of Commissioners of Deputies.Further mass uprisings spread from the cities to the countryside.Peasant Union was created, to put forward their demands.
Government under pressure to grow the revolutionary movement had to make concessions.It is, as promised, to convene the Bulygin Duma, called on behalf of the Minister of Internal Affairs which is in power at the time.However, the attempt failed just as the zakonosoveschatelnogo body that it wanted to establish a too limited voting rights and opportunities of ordinary people.So the first stage of the revolution.
