The unarmed
and supposedly peaceful march led by Father Georgy Gapon on 22 January 1905 was
purely a petition to solve the problems of workers regarding their basic
concerns. Such concerns are: fairer wages, better working conditions, and a
decrease in working hours to eight per day. They also petitioned an end to the
Russo-Japanese War and the start of the right to vote in public elections. It
was never meant to be a seditious march but it ended with thousands of
casualties.
