Georgy Gapon | |
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Гео́ргий Аполло́нович Гапо́н | |
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| Born | Georgy Apollonovich Gapon 17 February 1870 Bilyky, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 10 April 1906 (aged 36) |
| Cause of death | Assassination |
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| Spouse | Vera[1] (died c. 1898) |
| Parent | Apollon Fedorovych |
| Religion | Christianity (Eastern Orthodox) |
| Church | Russian Orthodox Church |
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Georgy Apollonovich Gapon[a] (17 February [O.S. 5 February] 1870 –10 April [O.S. 28 March] 1906) was a Russian Orthodox priest of Ukrainian descent and a popular working-class leader before the 1905 Russian Revolution. After he was discovered to be a police informant, Gapon was murdered by members of the Socialist Revolutionary Party. Father Gapon is mainly remembered as the leader of peaceful crowds of protesters on Bloody Sunday, when hundreds of them were killed by firing squads of the Imperial Russian Army.
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