Title (English with transliteration) |
Georgii Apollonovich Gapon, 1870-1906 |
Title (Cyrillic) |
Георгий Аполлонович Гапон, 1870-1906 |
Biography (English) |
Father Georgii Apollonovich Gapon, 1870-1906. Orthodox priest. Born 17.II (5.II, O.S.) 1870. Died 10.IV (28.III, O.S.) 1906 in St. Petersburg. |
Chronology (English) |
1903 founded the Assembly of Russian Workers, a government supported organization meant to offset the pressure of more radical workers’ demands; December 1904 the St. Petersburg industrial workers organized a series of strikes; January 9, 1905 Gapon led workers to present the petition to the Tsar at the Winter Palace asking for more social justice. The police reacted strongly, killing over one hundred demonstrators. This event, known as Bloody Sunday, was a catalyst to the 1905 Revolution; Following Bloody Sunday, Gapon fled to Geneva where he met with prominent revolutionary leaders; 1905 returned to Russia after the October Manifesto; April 10, 1906 Gapon was hanged by the Socialist Revolutionaries in St. Petersburg when his contact with Russian police was revealed. He had thought this “double loyalty” would help the workers’ cause. |
Portrait description |
Georgii Apollonovich Gapon, 1870-1906. Image from "Moscow House of Photography" http://www.mdf.ru/special/russiainphoto/1904/1904gapon/photo4.html. SJP-Photographs-Gapon~01 |
References |
portrait: SJP-Photo-Gapon~01; book: McCauley, Matin. Who’s Who in Russia since 1900. Routledge 1997. Page 116. http://wf2dnvr2.webfeat.org/ohPcL1770/url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/uscisd/docDetail.action?docID=10057209&page=1 |
Subject (personal name) |
Gapon, Georgii Apollonovich, 1870-1906 |
Subject (personal name (Cyrillic)) |
Гапон, Георгий Аполлонович, 1870-1906 |
Geographic subject (country) |
Russia |
Coverage date |
circa 1870/1906 |
Publisher (of the digital version) |
University of Southern California. Libraries |
Legacy record ID |
satjrnl-m62 |
Part of collection |
Russian Satirical Journals Collection |
Part of subcollection |
People Collection |
Type |
images |
Rights |
Public Domain. Distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is attributed to IMRC, University of Southern California and source in the manner specified by the publisher. |
Physical access |
To consult material in print, contact IMRC, POB 4353, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-4353; telephone (213) 740-2735, fax (213) 740-8550 or email imrc@usc.edu. |
Repository name |
Institute of Modern Russian Culture, University of Southern California |
Repository address |
IMRC, POB 4353, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-4353; telephone (213) 740-2735 |
Repository email |
imrc@usc.edu |
Contributing entity |
University of Southern California |
Filename |
SJP-Photo-Gapon~01.jpg |
Archival file |
Volume29/SJP-Photo-Gapon~01.jpg |