The Russo-Japanese War




Nicholas II at the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War

Russian forces moving into battle, 1904

Russian forces in retreat following the battle of Mukden

War dead, following the Russian retreat

The Revolution of 1905-07
 

Bloody Sunday: Troops (foreground) firing on demonstrators
 
 

Father Gapon
 

Father Gapon

Demonstration along the Neva River, St. Petersburg, 1905

Cavalry battalion deployed to halt demonstration, St. Petersburg, 1905

Executive Committee of the Peasants' Union, District of the Don Cossacks.
The Union was formed during the 1905-07 Revolution.

Battleship "Potemkin"
 
 

Reactionary "Black Hundreds", marching with national
flag and portrait of the Tsar
 

Father Gapon, "tried" and executed by SRs for
what they believed was his betrayal of the
revolution (1906)

"Pacification" of the Revolution in the countryside.
Troops under the command of Baron Taube,
conducting an execution.

Mstislav Dobuzhinskii, "October Idyll," 1905,
emphasizing that the government had drowned the
1905 Revolution in blood.