Bloody Sunday at the Winter Palace
January 22, 1905
A priest led thousands of St. Petersburg workers, carrying icons and petitions, toward the Tsar's gates. The Imperial Guard opened fire. Hundreds fell in the snow. The father image of Nicholas II died with them. Revolution swept the empire that year, and though it was crushed, the crack in the ice had opened.
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