The St. Petersburg workmen's petition to the Tsar (January 22, 1905)

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The St. Petersburg workmen's petition to the Tsar (January 22, 1905)
Created	6-8 January 1905
Author(s)	Georgy Gapon (priest)
Signatories	Assembly of Russian factory workmen of St. Petersburg
Purpose	Limiting the power of government officials, introduction of popular representation

The St. Petersburg workmen's petition to the Tsar (9 January 1905) is a historical document, a petition^[1][2] with which St. Petersburg workers, led by the priest Georgy Gapon, marched to Tsar Nicholas II on Bloody Sunday, January 9 (22), 1905. The petition was made up on January 5-8, 1905 by Georgy Gapon and a group of workers — leaders of the "Assembly of Russian Factory Workmen of St. Petersburg [ru]" (hereinafter — "Sobranie") with the participation of representatives of the democratic intelligence.^[3] The petition contained a number of demands, some of them political, some of them economic. The main demand of the petition was the destruction of the power of officials and the convocation of a popular representation in the form of a Constituent assembly on the basis of universal, direct, secret and equal suffrage.^[4] The other demands of the petition were divided into three parts: "Measures against the ignorance and powerlessness of the Russian people", "Measures against the poverty of the people", and "Measures against the oppression of capital over labor". The total number of demands was seventeen. The political demands of the petition, which proposed to limit the tsarist autocracy, were considered "impertinent" by the government and were the reason for the dispersal of the workers' protests.^[5]