Gapon. Shubinsky V.I.

about the person who went down in the history of Russia under the name; Pop Gapon; we know only one thing: on January 9, 1905, he led Petersburg workers to the Winter Palace in order to give the king a petition about the needs of the proletariat. The peaceful procession was shot on the streets of St. Petersburg - and from this day named; bloody Sunday;, the first Russian revolution began. In subsequent history textbooks, George Gapon was called only as a provocateur. However, how and why did this man who walked in the very first row of the manifestants and only miraculously escaped the bullets, managed to take 150 thousand people to the streets of the capital, who sincerely trusted him? What was the power of his attractiveness, why did the St. Petersburg proletarians believe him? The author of the biographical book is trying to figure out who the Pop Gapon actually was, talks about how the tragic fate of this extraordinary person, who found himself in the very center of the struggle of various political forces, was at the very tip of the now almost forgotten events of the beginning of the 20th century.