Peter Kropotkin

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Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin, aka Peter Kropotkin, was a Russian philosopher and activist

Dec 9, 1842

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: December 9, 1842
  • Died on: February 8, 1921
  • Nationality: Russian
  • Famous: Philosophers, Anarchists, Activists, Intellectuals & Academics, Philosophers
  • Ideologies: Anarchists
  • Birth Place: Moscow, Russian Empire
  • Gender: Male

Peter Kropotkin born at

Moscow, Russian Empire

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Birth Place

He married a fellow Russian refugee Sophie Anaiev in 1876.

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Personal Life

He had a daughter named Alexandra.

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Personal Life

Peter Kropotkin died of pneumonia in Dmitrov near Moscow, Russia, on February 8, 1921.

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Personal Life

Peter Kropotkin was born on December 12, 1842 in Moscow, Russia.

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Childhood & Early Life

His father was Prince Aleksei Petrovich Kropotkin, a Prince from Smolensk, and his mother was Yekaterina Nikolaevna Sulima, the daughter of a Cossack general.

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Childhood & Early Life

His father married Yelizaveta Markovna Korandino two years after his own mother died of tuberculosis in 1846.

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Childhood & Early Life

He had two elder brothers, Nikolai and Alexander and an elder sister named Yelena.

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Childhood & Early Life

He joined the ‘First Moscow Gymnasium’ initially where he developed great interest for geography and history.

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Childhood & Early Life

In 1862 Peter Kropotkin joined the ‘Corps of Pages’ and received a commission in the Cossack Regiment stationed in Eastern Siberia.

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Career

He worked as an ‘aide de camp’ for the governor of Transbaikalia located in Chita for some time and then as an attaché to the governor-general of East Siberia located at Irkutsk for Cossack affairs during 1863.

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Career

In 1864, finding very little administrative work in Irkutsk, he toured North Manchuria from Tranbaikalia up to Amur and then up the Sungari River with scientific expeditions.

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Career

Seeing the impossibility of any reforms occurring in Siberia, he started reading the works of the French anarchist and political thinkers like Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Alexander Herzen and John Stuart Mill in 1866.

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Career

In 1867 he resigned from the army and chose to study mathematics at the ‘Saint Petersburg Imperial University’.

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Career

Peter Kropotkin published the book ‘In Russian and French Prisons’ in 1887 and his autobiography ‘Memoirs of a Revolutionist’ in 1899.

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Major Works

His famous second book ‘Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution’ was followed by ‘The Conquest of Bread’ and then by ‘Fields, Factories and Workshops’ during 1901 to 1902.

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Major Works

His book ‘The Great French Revolution’ published in 1909 turned him into a world renowned figure.

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Major Works