120 years ago today, January 22, 1905 (December 17, 1904 in the lunar calendar), Petersburg's "Bloody Sunday". Father Gobon led a group of people to prepare to submit a petition to the tsar. January 22, 1905 (January 9, Russian calendar) was Sunday, and the curtain rose amid a peaceful march of 100,000 workers in St. Petersburg. Workers and their families petitioned the tsar to improve living conditions. But the curtain of this day fell in extreme terror. The tsar refused to listen to the demands of the marchers, but ordered his troops to shoot at the unarmed protesters, killing and wounding more than 4600 people, and about 1000 people were brutally killed. The parade began at noon. Walking at the forefront of the procession was the organizer of the march, the radical Father Gobon. He has led many strikes this year. Father Gobon, wearing vestments and holding a cross, led the workers towards the Winter Palace. There they were going to submit a petition to the tsar. Even when they saw soldiers armed with ammunition, the marchers continued to move forward. They did not believe that the soldiers would shoot at fellow Russians, and they believed that the tsar would listen to their demands. But the tsar was not in the Winter Palace. His army was ordered to resolutely disperse all crowds. The authorities panicked when the procession refused to retreat. They believe that this is the first sign of revolution, and that only by showing force can the growing momentum of this "mob" be most effectively curbed. The soldiers fired from their horses and used their swords to chop at the panicked demonstrators. Tsarist Russia was shocked by a series of strikes in many cities to protest the massacre. At the same time, workers and school political associations raised demands for some form of parliamentary system. Farmers began to seize land from landlords. The tsar needed to constantly send troops into the countryside to suppress peasant resistance. Certain units in the army also showed revolutionary enthusiasm. All the sailors of the battleship Potemkin mutiny and drove the warship to the Black Sea and cruised around the sea. The Russian Revolution of 1905 is of great significance in Russian history. Lenin said: "Without the 'General Exercise' of 1905, the victory of the October Revolution of 1917 would not have been possible." Stills from the movie "Warship Potemkin"