History in postcards.

Dear Friends!
I present to you cards 1930-1931 years from the archive
my family on a historical theme.

A meeting of workers in front of the Morozov strike of 1885.

Artist G. K. Savitsky.

During the time from 1881 to 1884 years, the penalties for workers increased
at 155 %.
The strike began on 7 January and continued until 14 Jan 1885
inclusive.
By order of the Emperor Alexander III
were made mass arrests.
Leaders and 33 workers were tried.
The court found that from 1/3 to half of the earnings
were deducted in fines in favor of the manufacturer.
"Our white slaves," said
the lawyer Plevako.
After learning about the terrible oppression of the workers, a jury
they were acquitted.
After the Morozov strike, the government was forced
to introduce a law of 1886, by which the penalties were going
not in the pocket of the manufacturer, and was spent on the needs of the workers.
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After the pogrom in 1905.

The Artist P. I. Geller

The largest riots were in Odessa, Rostov,
Ekaterinoslav, Minsk, Simferopol.
The events of those years in Russia, when there were pogroms, repression
and the flight of Jews from the devastated areas, inspired artist
to write a few paintings on the situation of Jews in the country.
The picture is painted in 1905-1907.
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Kalyayev hurls a bomb into the carriage of the Grand Duke
Sergei Alexandrovich in Moscow in 1905.

Artist E. M. Svarog.

4(February 17, new), 1905, in the territory of
The Moscow Kremlin militant socialist-revolutionary Ivan by Kulaevym
he was killed by the Governor-General, younger brother of the late
Alexander III, the uncle of Emperor Nicholas II,
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich Romanov.
The first attempt was scheduled for 2 February,
but Kalyagin is not a bomb thrown, because together with
great Prince in the carriage was his wife
and nephews.
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The attack of the peasants on the manor house in 1905.

Artist G. N. Gorelov.

After workers went to fight the peasants.
Their performances captured the South of Russia and the national
margins. The rebels attacked the manor and captured
of the earth.
In may-June 1905 was 800 peasant uprisings.
In the summer of 1905 was formed the all-Russian peasant Union -
the first political organization of the peasants.
Gorelov was one of the favorite students of I. E. Repin.
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Demonstration 17 October 1905.

The Artist Ilya Repin

The painting was done in 1907 and modified in 1911.
Repin paints a picture in their Penates in Kuokkala.
Depicts her characters are intellectuals, public
leaders, students, artists, and students.
Draws a crowd, which carries the revolutionary with a broken
fetters.
"Jewry, madness, enthusiasm and the Holy purity of the Russian
boys and girls - that wove our revolution,
bore red flags on the Nevsky on the day after the announcement
the Manifesto of October 17" - comments on Repin exposed
the big picture 13 the traveling exhibition.
Censorship was allowed, then banned this picture.
Then it was moved to Moscow, where she was travelling exhibition.
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Universal railway strike in 1905.

Artist G. K. Savitsky

20 October 1905 the Moscow Committee of the RSDLP called
for a General strike on the roads of the Moscow railway
node.
After Moscow the strike movement spread to St. Petersburg,
and then in the other industrial centers of the country.
The strike was held under the slogan of conquest
democracy, freedoms and the overthrow of the autocracy.
Arose Soviets of workers ' deputies, but
in their leadership was dominated by the Mensheviks.
The painting was done in 1925.