Eleven days after this incident occurred, Alexander Bulygin became the new 
Eleven days after this incident occurred, Alexander Bulygin became the new Minister of the Interior. The man at the center of this event, who was later killed by Pinhas Rutenberg for his believed betrayal of the PSR, led a march of citizens carrying icons and portraits of the monarch to call for the separation of church and state, an eight hour work day, and the cessation of war in the Far East. Days earlier, a strike at the Putilov Metal Works had inspired the aforementioned petition, which was co-signed by Ivan Vasimov. But despite peaceful intentions, the demonstrators led by George Gapon were shot at by troops at the Narva Gate. FTP, identify this weekend massacre of St. Petersburg protestors that ignited the 1905 Russian Revolution.
Eleven days after this incident occurred, Alexander Bulygin became the new Minister of the Interior.
{Bloody Sunday}