Peter Kropotkin

**Prince Peter (Pyotr) Alexeyevich Kropotkin** () (9 December 1842 - 8 February 1921) was a Russian anarchist, philosopher, revolutionary, scientist, geographer, and one of the first advocates of anarcho-communism.

## Early life

Kropotkin was born on December 9, 1842 in Moscow, Russia.  His father, Aleksey Petrovich Kropotkin was a prince of the Rurik Dynasty. His father owned large amounts of land and over 1000 serfs.  His mother, Yekaterina Nikolaevna Sulima was the daughter of a Cossack general.  In 1846, Kropotkin's mother died of tuberculosis. Two years after, Kropotkin's father married a woman named Yelizaveta Mar'kovna Korandino.

### Books

- Project Gutenberg e-text, Project LibriVox audiobook
- _The Conquest of Bread_ Project Gutenberg e-text, Project LibriVox audiobook
- _Fields, Factories and Workshops_
- P.Kropotkin, _In Russian and French Prisons_, London: Ward and Downey; 1887.
- _Memoirs of a Revolutionist_, London : Smith, Elder; 1899. Kropotkin's own memoirs, which were also published in the United States in the same year and have appeared in a number of modern editions.
- _The Great French Revolution, 1789-1793_, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, London, William Heinemann, 1909, translated from the French by N.F. Dryhurst. e-text (in French)
- _Russian Literature: Ideals and Realities_ (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1915). Available online at the Anarchy Archives,
- _Ethics_ (unfinished). Included as first part of  _Origen y evolución de la moral_ (Spanish e-text)
- _In Russian and French Prisons_. Online book. A criticism of the existence of prisons.

### Articles

- "Research on the Ice age", _Notices of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society_, 1876.
- "The desiccation of Eur-Asia", _Geographical Journal_, 23 (1904), 722-741.
- Mr. Mackinder; Mr. Ravenstein; Dr. Herbertson; Prince Kropotkin; Mr. Andrews; Cobden Sanderson; Elisée Reclus, "On Spherical Maps and Reliefs: Discussion",  The Geographical Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3. (Sep., 1903), pp. 294–299, JSTOR
- "Baron Toll", The Geographical Journal, Vol. 23, No. 6. (Jun., 1904), pp. 770–772, JSTOR
- "The population of Russia", The Geographical Journal, Vol. 10, No. 2. (Aug., 1897), pp. 196–202, JSTOR
- "The old beds of the Amu-Daria", The Geographical Journal, Vol. 12, No. 3. (Sep., 1898), pp. 306–310, JSTOR

### Pamphlets

- _Listen, Anarchist!_
- _An Appeal To The Young _
- War.
- Law and Authority.
- The Place of Anarchy in Socialist Evolution.
- Revolutionary Government.
- Are Prisons Necessary? Chapter X from "In Russian and French Prisons" (1887)
- Anarchism : Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
- The State : Its Historic Role (1897)
- On Economics Selected Passages from his Writings (1898-1913)

## Other websites

- "Map of the Southern Half of Eastern Siberia and Parts of Mongolia, Manchuria, and Sakhalin: For a General Sketch of the Orography of Eastern Siberia" is a map that was made by Peter Kropotkin

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Peter Kropotkin
- **image**: Atelier Nadar - Pierre Kropotkine.jpg
- **image size**: 200px
- **caption**: Kropotkin, by Nadar (photographer), Nadar
- **birth place**: Moscow, Russia
- **death place**: Dmitrov, Russia
- **occupation**: Anarchist Revolutionary, Geographer, Zoologist, and Political Essayist.