The Bloody Sunday of the Czar

Father gapon escaped detection by shaving his beard and then getting dressed in another set of clothes that had been provided by theatre s of maxim gorky. He snuck into a packed meeting of the free economic society where leaders of the liberal intelligencia were meeting to discuss the day's dramatic events. Czarist absolutism was a moral, political, economic and military disaster. Meanwhile, the working classes joined their brothers and sisters in the capital, and a general strike spread across russia,. ultimately including some 500 thousand workers.