Gapon Union - Gapon Union

…While studying at the seminary, he was influenced by Tolstoyism, and after entering the Theological University in the capital of St. Petersburg in 1898, he participated in evangelism in the workers' district. He eventually became acquainted with Moscow's security chief Zbatov, who advocated a legal labor movement controlled by the police, and in 1903 he organized a workers' coffee club, and based on that, in 1904, with the permission of the authorities, he established the Gathering of Russian Factory Workers of St. Petersburg (commonly known as the Gapon Union). After a union member was fired at the end of the same year, he decided to put his long-held ideas into practice, and led a petition march to the emperor on January 22, 1905 (the 9th in the Russian calendar) (Bloody Sunday incident). …

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…神学校在学中トルストイ主義の感化をうけ，1898年首都ペテルブルグの神学大学入学後，労働者街の伝道などに参加。やがて警察のコントロールする合法的労働運動を提唱するモスクワの保安部長官ズバートフと交わり，1903年労働者喫茶クラブを組織し，それをもとに04年当局の許可を得て〈ペテルブルグ市ロシア人工場労働者の集い(通称ガポン組合)〉を設立した。同年末組合員解雇事件を契機にかねて抱いていた考えの実行を決意し，05年1月22日(ロシア暦では9日)の皇帝請願行進(血の日曜日事件)を指導した。…

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