Cika jumlar da ke gaba: Da fatan kawo karshen tawayen, an harbe masu zanga-zanga da yawa a kan
Ranar Lahadi mai jini (1905) yayin da suke ƙoƙarin yin tafiya zuwa Fadar Winter a St. Petersburg. An umurci Dmitri Feodorovich Trepov da ya ɗauki tsauraran matakai don dakatar da ayyukan juyin juya hali. An kashe Grand Duke Sergei a watan Fabrairu ta hanyar bam din juyin juya hali a Moscow yayin da ya bar Kremlin. A ranar 3 ga Maris Sarkin ya la'anci 'yan tawaye. A halin yanzu, Witte ya ba da shawarar cewa a ba da sanarwar. Goremykin da kwamitin da ke kunshe da zaɓaɓɓun wakilan zemstvos da majalisun birni a ƙarƙashin shugabancin Witte za su tsara tsare-tsaren gyare-gyare. A watan Yuni, jirgin ruwa na "Potemkin", wani ɓangare na Jirgin Ruwa na Bahar Maliya, ya yi tawaye.