--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 8 number: 4 published: 1905-02 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Revolution in Russia," *Improvement Era* 8, no. 4 (February 1905): 304.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0804unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera0804unse start_page: 304 end_page: 304 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1905-02) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0804unse publication_year: 1905 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1905, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Revolution in Russia REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA. There is a great industrial strike going on in Russia. The strikers were determined to present their grievances to the Czar,, on Friday, January 20, and wished to petition him for permission to give a grand demonstration on Saturday, at Winter Palace square. The strike leaders were warned that such demonstration could not take place, and that the Emperor would not be there to receive their petition. The workmen, however, were convinced that he would be there to listen to their grievances. Whereupon they tried to see him but failed, and Father Gopon, a priest, sent it to Minister Mirsky, who sent it to the Czar. Gopon, for leading the strikers against the government, was excommunicated from the church on Sunday, and the Emperor answered the petition and the petitioners,100,000 strong,when they tried to assemble, with a solid array of troops,with rifle, bayonet and sabre. When Gopon,. in his golden vestment holding aloft the cross, marched through the narrow gate at the head of eight thousand workmen, there was a volley of fire from the soldiers, and in the turmoil which ensued, many people were killed and wounded. Panic, terror, and anarchy ensued. Martial law prevails, and a revolution seemsimminent.