{"id":29659,"date":"2025-04-04T18:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T17:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=29659"},"modified":"2025-04-04T18:05:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T17:05:19","slug":"ever-heard-of-father-gapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=29659","title":{"rendered":"Ever heard of Father Gapon?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I didn&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wikipedia states:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Georgy Apollonovich Gapon<\/strong><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georgy_Gapon?wprov=sfti1#cite_note-2\">[a]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;(17 February&nbsp;[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates\">O.S.<\/a>&nbsp;5 February]&nbsp;1870 \u201310 April&nbsp;[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates\">O.S.<\/a>28 March]&nbsp;1906) was a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russian_Orthodox_Church\">Russian Orthodox<\/a>&nbsp;priest of Ukrainian descent and a popular working-class leader before the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1905_Russian_Revolution\">1905 Russian Revolution<\/a>. Father Gapon is mainly remembered as the leader of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bloody_Sunday_(1905)\">peaceful crowds of protesters on Bloody Sunday<\/a>, when hundreds of them were killed by firing squads of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Imperial_Russian_Army\">Imperial Russian Army<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read more about Georgy Gapon <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georgy_Gapon\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georgy_Gapon\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;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: &#8220;Georgy Apollonovich Gapon[a]&nbsp;(17 February&nbsp;[O.S.&nbsp;5 February]&nbsp;1870 \u201310 April&nbsp;[O.S.28 March]&nbsp;1906) was a&nbsp;Russian Orthodox&nbsp;priest of Ukrainian descent and a popular working-class leader before the&nbsp;1905 Russian Revolution. Father Gapon is mainly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29661,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29659\/revisions\/29661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}