History.com Staff. “Bloody Sunday Massacre in Russia.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 2009, www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bloody-sunday-massacre-in-russia. Russia was under the control of Tsar Nicholas II and they were in a losing war against Japan. That caused violence in St. Petersburg in what became know as the Bloody Sunday. Nicholas fell under the influence of a man called the mad monk, Grigory Rasputin, which caused Nicholas to make many bad choices. The demands for reform went unmet and more radical socialist and workers decided to take a different way. On January 22, 1905, a group of workers lead by a crazy priest mname George Gapon marched into the Winter Palace to make demands. Military forces opened fire on the demonstrators,
