Brief biography Gapon

Pop Gapon and the first Russian revolution on the streets of the city entered thousands of workers. They walked with families, children, festively dressed, with portraits of the king, icons, crosses. At the head of this procession was the summer priest George Gapon. In the year, this priest of the St. Petersburg transfer prison created in the city the working organization "Assembly of Russian Factory Zavodsk Workers of St.

Petersburg." She appeared with the assistance of the police and the city authorities. Initially, workers arranged common evenings, sometimes with tea, dancing. When organizing, the cash desk of mutual assistance was opened. Soon, in the "Meeting" of Gapon there were already about 9 thousand people.

And along with tea parties, the requirements began to establish an 8-hour working day, increase the salary. Georgy Gapon reads a petition in a meeting of workers at the meetings of the organization preceding the massive performance of the workers, it was Gapon who called for contacting the king, which alone could intercede for the workers. He also prepared an appeal to Nicholas II, where it was said: “We were impoverished, we were oppressed throughout the city of the columns were met by units of armed soldiers, but the participants in the procession did not want to believe that they could start shooting at peacefully walking workers.

There was no king in the city, he was in Tsarskoye Selo, but everyone expected that he would come and listen to all requests. But the king not only did not come. The day before, he introduced martial law in St. Petersburg. All power in the city automatically passed to his uncle, commander of the troops of the St. Petersburg Military District Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich.

He met the folk procession by the team “Fire! As a result, 96 people were killed immediately, 34 more people later died from the wounded. Portraits of the king, which were previously revered as icons, tore and trampled right on the streets. Gapon himself, shocked by the execution of the workers, exclaimed: "There is no more God, there is no more king." From under the bullets of Gapon, Socialist-Revolutionary Pyotr Rutenberg pulled out, then the priest was hiding for some time in the apartment of Maxim Gorky, and then he fled abroad.

In the homeland, Gapon was deprived of the church dignity and excluded from the spiritual rank. The events of January made Gapon with a sign figure. In Europe, he met with J. Zhores, J. Clemanso, P. Kropotkin and other leaders of European socialists and radicals. Georgy Apollonovich even founded the Gapon Foundation, where donations flocked. Meanwhile, the king issued a manifesto of October 17, which, along with the proclaimed some freedoms, also declared an amnesty for all participants in revolutionary speeches.

Gapon took advantage of this and returned to Russia. First of all, he asked for forgiveness from Prime Minister S. Witte, to which he promised to restore the Gapon “meeting”. Nevertheless, after the suppression of the December armed uprising and the arrest of the St. Petersburg Council of Workers' Deputies, all promises were forgotten. In the newspapers there were articles about Gapon’s connections with the police and he received money from the Japanese agent.

There are suspicions that these publications were born in government services in order to undermine the authority of Gapon in the eyes of workers. In January, the “Meeting” was prohibited. Georgy Gapon proposed a deal to the police department, promising to issue a Socialist -Revolutionar combat organization. The deal found a positive response, and the Minister of the Interior P.

Durnovo agreed to conduct this operation, allocating 25 thousand rubles on it. This transaction became known to the Central Committee of the Party of Socialist Revolutionaries, and Gapon was sentenced to death. Gapon was lured to the cottage in the Ozerki near St. Petersburg, where they talked with him about the issuance of a combat organization. During a conversation, workers broke into the room, who previously held in the “Assembly” who immediately hung their former leader ...

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