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workers they tried to seize power in Odesa.
The attempt failed. The crew brought the ship
to Romanian port Constanta, where they
handed “The Appeal to the Whole Civilized
World” to foreign reporters and consuls.
October, 17 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia approved Manifest
1905 “About improvement of the state system”. It
‘granted” civic freedoms, personal immunity,
freedom of speech, freedom of conscience,
freedom of press, meetings and societies. The
State Duma was founded.
October 1905 The establishment of chauvinistic Black-
Hundred organization “The Union of the
Russian People”, which was active in many
cities of Ukraine. O. Dubrovin, V.
Puryshkevych were its leaders. It committed a
row of bloody Jewish pogroms in Odesa,
Kyiv, Chernihiv.
November In Sevastopil seamen of 12 vessels of the
15-16, 1905 Black Sea Fleet uprose. Lieutenant P.
Schmidt headed it. They demanded from the
tsar to call the Statutory meeting. After 13-
hour battle the uprising was suppressed. P.
Schmidt and his officers were shot on
Berezan island in the Black Sea.
November, 18, The uprising of three sapper companies
1905 headed by B. Zhadanivsky in Kyiv. Four
thousand workers joined nearly a thousand of
soldiers. Government troops crushed the
uprising.
December, 18- “The Tragedy of Sorochyntsi”. The uprising
21, 1905 in Velyki Sorochyntsi village , Myrhorod
district, Poltava province, which was violently

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