Question

Regarding the action taking place, which would be the best title for this image?

a) “Waiting for the Tsar”
b) “Before ‘Bloody Sunday’”
c) “1905 Revolution Victors”
d) “Honoring the Peasants”

Answer 1

b) “Before ‘Bloody Sunday’”

Bloody Sunday refers to the massacre of January 22nd, 1905 in St Petersburg, Russia. Unarmed demonstrators marching to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in the Winter Palace were attacked by the Imperial Guard.

The massacre on Bloody Sunday is thought to be the origin of the active phase of the Revolution of 1905.