Georgy Gapon

Georgy Apollonovich Gapon (17 February [O.S. 5 February] 1870 –10 April [O.S. 28 March] 1906) was a Russian Orthodox priest and a popular working-class leader before the 1905 Russian Revolution. After he was discovered to be a police informant, Gapon was murdered by members of the Socialist Revolutionary Party. Father Gapon is mainly remembered as an agent provocateur who led a peaceful crowd of protesters on Bloody Sunday to be met by firing squads of Imperial Russian Army.

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Apollonovich and the family name is Gapon.
The Reverend

Georgy Gapon
Гео́ргий Аполло́нович Гапо́н
Born
Georgy Apollonovich Gapon

(1870-02-17)17 February 1870
Bilyky, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire
Died10 April 1906(1906-04-10) (aged 36)
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Cause of deathAssassination
Occupations
  • Cleric
  • political activist
SpouseVera (died c. 1898)
ReligionChristianity (Eastern Orthodox)
ChurchRussian Orthodox Church
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