Georgy Gapon

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The Reverend Georgy Gapon
Георгий Гапон
Born	Georgy Apollonovich Gapon (1870-02-17)17 February 1870 Bilyky, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	10 April 1906(1906-04-10) (aged 36) Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Cause of death	Assassination
Occupations	Cleric political activist
Spouse	Vera[1] (died c. 1898)
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. 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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