Ever heard of Father Gapon?

I didn’t know the name at all when it was mentioned in conversation with an American friend who is more familiar than me on Russian history.

Wikipedia states:

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.”

You can read more about Georgy Gapon here.