What is Bloody Sunday (1905)?
'''Bloody Sunday''' took place in [[Russia]] in 1905. More than 3,000 people marched towards the [[Winter Palace]] in hopes of presenting [[Tsar Nicholas II]] a [[petition]] for reform, however he was not present at the palace. <ref>{{Cite web|date=2012-12-03|title=Bloody Sunday 1905|url=https://alphahistory.com/russianrevolution/bloody-sunday-1905/|access-date=2021-03-15|website=Russian Revolution|language=en-AU}}</ref> Without the order of the tsar to stop them, the army shot their rifles into the crowd, leaving 96 dead and around 300 wounded.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bloody Sunday|url=https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/bloody-sunday-in-the-ninth-wave-journal|access-date=2021-03-15|website=The British Library|archive-date=2021-10-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021202812/https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/bloody-sunday-in-the-ninth-wave-journal|url-status=deviated|archivedate=2021-10-21|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021202812/https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/bloody-sunday-in-the-ninth-wave-journal}}</ref> This event began the [[Russian Revolution of 1905]] which was caused in part by defeat in the [[Russo-Japanese War]]. Many thousands died and the Tsar created the [[State Duma]] to represent the Russian people. It is considered a cause of the later, larger [[Russian Revolution]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Russian Revolution of 1917|url=https://cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/r/Russian_Revolution_of_1917.htm|access-date=2021-03-15|website=cs.mcgill.ca|archive-date=2021-02-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225131937/https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/r/Russian_Revolution_of_1917.htm|url-status=deviated|archivedate=2021-02-25|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225131937/https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/r/Russian_Revolution_of_1917.htm}}</ref> Later [[Dmitri Shostakovich]] composed his 11th [[Symphony]] based on this event. Bloody Sunday is also known as a massacre. The Winter Palace is where the Tsar spent his winter holi