Everything is in motion. On 22 January 1905, Tsar Nicholas II's palace guards fired on demonstrators in St. Petersburg. After a general strike, over 30,000 workers gathered that Sunday in a star-shaped march to the Winter Palace to peacefully demand decent working conditions, agrarian reform, religious tolerance, an end to censorship, and the creation of a people's representative body. But even before the Narva Arch, soldiers fired into the crowd. There were deaths, many deaths. A massacre. It marked the beginning of the Russian Revolution and went down in history as "Bloody Sunday".
Vaslav Nijinsky was living in St. Petersburg at this time. He was 16 years old and in the middle of his training at the Imperial Ballet School. A young man in turbulent times. Everything was in flux. These ...
