Georgy Gapon

Georgy Gapon
Гео́ргий Аполло́нович Гапо́н
Born
Georgy Apollonovich Gapon

(1870-02-17)17 February 1870
Died10 April 1906(1906-04-10) (aged 36)
Cause of deathAssassination
Occupations
  • Cleric
  • political activist
SpouseVera[1] (died c. 1898)
ParentApollon Fedorovych
ReligionChristianity (Eastern Orthodox)
ChurchRussian Orthodox Church
Signature

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.

  1. ^ Lane 1995, p. 336.


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