A couple of phrases: the authorities warns. Putin's Ministry of Internal Affairs VS Tsarist officials

“The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia calls for citizens to refrain from participating in inconsistent shares, as well as from visiting the squares and streets declared as a place of their time, in the time designated by the organizers. In conditions of mass accumulation of people, the risk of infection with coronavirus infection increases. In addition, provocations from destructive persons aimed at violation of public order are not excluded. Do not threaten your health and safety. Caught against participating in unauthorized actions of your family and friends, especially minors. Units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and other law enforcement agencies will not allow the destabilization of the situation and take all the necessary measures to maintain law and order in the regions of the country. Any aggressive actions of participants in inconsistent public events, and even more so attempts to provoke clashes with law enforcement officers will be regarded as a threat to public security and immediately stopped. The offenders will be detained and brought to liability provided for by law. ”

Official information of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation

“On the same evening, January 8 [1905], Mirsky convened an emergency meeting of ministers and senior officials whom he could contact - the meeting was too accidental to resolve the situation ... It was decided not to prohibit the demonstration, but to put the limits for which it should not go out. The path to the Winter Palace according to this plan should have been cut off. If it is not possible to stop the demonstrators with the beliefs standing in a cordon, the troops should open fire. However, everyone was sure that force would not have to be used. The king reacted to the 120,000th working strike and the planned demonstration as an event to the trivial; On the eve of the terrible massacre, he wrote in his diary: "At the head of the Union, some kind of socialist priest Gapon." Confident that the situation is controlled, he left for Tsarskoye Selo. Fulon, responsible for safety in the capital, although he had experience in the gendarmerie, was soft, intelligent, according to Witte, alien to police techniques, he would have more suitable for Petersburg institutes. But according to the decisions made on the eve, he placed armed troops in key positions in the city. ”

Richard Pipe. " Russian Revolution "