A detailed look at Father Georgy Gapon, the Russian Orthodox priest who led the Bloody Sunday Revolution in 1905 and who was brutally murdered in March 1906. This essay explores the various responses to his death and the role it may have played in the development of Russia’s Zionist and Revolutionary movements. At two o’…

Manuilov & Rachkovsky As a journalist in Paris, Manuilov had found himself in the employ of Vladimir Burtsev’s nemesis, Pyotr Rachkovsky, the notorious chief of Russia’s Secret Police in Europe.[1] It was also Manuilov, by this time a very able and experienced intriguer, who had played a central part of Gapon’s alleged plans to re-start…

Passover in Western Europe would have started on April 9th and ended on April 17th. But again, it’s hard to draw any firm conclusions about the time and the date that Rutenberg chose to murder Gapon. It was a vaguely religious period for both Jews and Christians, and as we saw at Kishinev, it was…