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Georgy Gapon

1870 - 1906

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Georgy Apollonovich Gapon (17 February [O.S. 5 February] 1870 –10 April [O.S. 28 March] 1906) was a Russian Orthodox priest of Ukrainian descent and a popular working-class leader before the 1905 Russian Revolution. Father Gapon is mainly remembered as the leader of peaceful crowds of protesters on Bloody Sunday, when hundreds of them were killed by firing squads of the Imperial Russian Army. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georgy Gapon is the 128th most popular social activist (up from 129th in 2019), the 125th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 130th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Ukrainian Social Activist.

Georgy Gapon was a Russian Orthodox priest who led a peaceful march of workers to the Winter Palace on January 9, 1905. The march was met with violence and Gapon was killed.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Georgy Gapon ranks 128 out of 840. Before him are Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, René Cassin, Catharine MacKinnon, Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad, William Luther Pierce, and Susan B. Anthony. After him are Kang Pan-sok, Alexander Parvus, Steve Biko, Vasil Levski, Bugsy Siegel, and Hans Scholl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Georgy Gapon ranks 28. Before him are Edwin S. Porter, Gustav Bauer, Josef Hoffmann, Clara Immerwahr, John Boland, and Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma. After him are Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Major Ritchie, Pierre Louÿs, Ernst Barlach, Reginald Lee, and D. T. Suzuki. Among people deceased in 1906, Georgy Gapon ranks 12. Before him are Élie Ducommun, Archduke Otto of Austria, Raja Ravi Varma, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, and Susan B. Anthony. After him are Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Anton Arensky, Alexander Kielland, Bartolomé Mitre, Eugène Carrière, and Jules Breton.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Georgy Gapon ranks 125 out of 1,365. Before him are Yevgeny Primakov (1929), Emil Gilels (1916), Władysław Tarnowski (1836), Anatoly Lunacharsky (1875), Alexander Dovzhenko (1894), and Alexander Samsonov (1859). After him are Nachman of Breslov (1772), Vladimir Arnold (1937), Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski (1895), Olga Kurylenko (1979), Sviatopolk II of Kiev (1050), and Milla Jovovich (1975).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Ukraine

Among social activists born in Ukraine, Georgy Gapon ranks 3. Before him are Simon Wiesenthal (1908), and Fanny Kaplan (1890). After him are Alexander Pechersky (1909), David Riazanov (1870), Haim Arlosoroff (1899), Borys Romanchenko (1926), Maria Nikiforova (1885), Sergei Kovalev (1930), Alfreda Markowska (1926), Leo Deutsch (1855), and Olga Lepeshinskaya (1916).

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