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Today is Thursday, January 9th, 2020.

On this day in 1905, a cavalry of armed Russian soldiers fired into a crowd of peaceful protesters outside the Winter Palace in

St. Petersburg. The massacre known as Bloody Sunday sparked the revolution that brought the Russian monarchy to its knees.

Welcome to today in True Crime, a parcast original. Due to the graphic nature of today's crimes,

listener discretion is advised. Extreme caution is advised for listeners under 13.

Today we're covering the Bloody Sunday massacre in St. Petersburg,

a peaceful protest turned bloodbath.

Let's go back to St. Petersburg, Russia on the morning of January 9th

1905 just as the sun began to melt the morning chill.

They gathered in the square over a hundred thousand strong civil servants workers, and students alike.

They carried a petition signed by over 135,000 Russian citizens,

begging three requests from

Zar Nicholas II. An eight-hour workday, a minimum wage of one

ruble per day and a representative body that would pave the way to a more democratic

Russia. The crowd had amassed to deliver the petition to the czar himself. They

would walk to the gates of the Winter Palace and humbly ask their

monarch for help. Many of the protesters had brought large signs depicting iconography of the Tsar and his family,

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