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The previous December, a strike occurred at the Putilov plant. Sympathy strikes in other parts of the city raised the number of strikers above 80,000. By January 8, the city had no electricity and no newspapers. All public areas were declared closed.






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The previous December, a strike occurred at the Putilov plant. Sympathy strikes in other parts of the city raised the number of strikers above 80,000. By January 8, the city had no electricity and no newspapers. All public areas were declared closed. Father Gapon organized a peaceful 'workers' procession' to the Winter Palace
Winter Palace

The Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia, was, from 1732 to 1917, the official residence of the Russian Tsars. Situated between the Palace Embankment and the Palace Square, adjacent to the site of Peter I of Russia's original Winter Palace, the present and fourth Winter Palace was built and altered almost continuously between the late...
 to deliver a petition to the Tsar that Sunday stating reforms they had desperately wanted. Reforms such as an end to the Russo-Japanese war
Russo-Japanese War

The Russo-Japanese War or the Manchurian Campaign in some English sources, was a conflict that grew out of the rival imperialism ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea....
 and more suffrage as well as the shortening of the workers day to 8 hours, fair pay and condemnation of the overtime that the factory owners had forced upon their workers. The procession was well stewarded by followers of Gapon and any terrorists and hot-heads were removed and all the participants checked for weapons. He was warned not to act. Troops had been deployed around the Winter Palace and at other key points. The Tsar left the city on January 8 for Tsarskoe Selo.The guards shot at the people, but the crowd kept walking in pride to the tsar.

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