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Causes and course of the Bloody Sunday massacre in St Petersburg
On the 22nd January 1905, the Bloody Sunday massacre took place in the Russian capital Saint Petersburg.
Russian mutiny on the battleship Potemkin
The crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin mutinied on the 27th June 1905, an uprising that was immortalized in Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 silent film.
The origins of the First Russian Empire’s State Duma
The Russian Empire’s State Duma met for the first time at the Taurida Palace in St. Petersburg on 27th April 1906.
