The Cossack's onslaught, a furious charge on defenceless strikers The combat on the quay near the admiralty, St Petersburg January 22nd 1905 The working classes of St Petersburg have been cowed into temporary submission by the drastic measures adopted by the guardians of autocracy, but the deeds that were done in St Petersburg on 22nd January will one day bear a bitter fruit of revolt ?004 Topfoto January 22 - Massacre of Russian demonstrators at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, one of the triggers of the abortive Russian Revolution of 1905.