KROPOTKIN PETER 1842 - 1921

This material is held atLSE Library Archives and Special Collections

Reference
- GB 97 COLL MISC 0530
Dates of Creation
- 1895-1917
Language of Material
- English
Physical Description
- Eight folders

Scope and Content

Photocopies of original (but closed) Kropotkin letters held by the Library and received from various sources.

Letters from Kropotkin to Mrs Turin.
Letters from Kropotkin to Melgunov et al.
Letters from Kropotkin to Mr Colus.
Letters from Kropotkin to Feliks Vollkovskii.
Additions.

Administrative / Biographical History

Prince Peter Alexeivitch Kropotkin 1842-1921.

Prince Peter Kropotkin was the son a relatively wealthy army officer and came from a noble lineage. He was educated in the Corps of Pages, Petrograd, 1857 - 1862 and Petrograd University 1869 - 1873.

He became the aide-de-camp to the military Governor of Transbaikalia and became the attache for Cossack Affairs to the Governor-General of Eastern Siberia. In 1864 he crossed North Manchuria from Transbaikalia to the Amur. He received the Gold Medal of the Russian Geographical Society for this journey. Also in 1864 he went up the Sungari to Kirin. He became Secretary to the Physical Geography Section of the Geographical Society and in 1871 he went to Finland and Sweden to explore the glacial deposits.

However his career changed in 1872 when he joined the International Working Mens' Association. He was arrested and confined in the fortress of St Peter and St Paul in 1874. In 1876 he escaped from a military hospital and came to England. He left England some time later for Geneva where he founded the anarchist paper La Revolte. He was expelled from Switzerland in 1881 and went to France where in 1883 he was condemned to five years imprisonment at Lyons.

Kropotkin was a prolific writer on revolution, capitalism and geography, including: