Kropotkin, Peter Alexeivich, Prince Kropotkin (1842-1921)

Russian anarchist. Imprisoned for revolutionary activities in 1874, he escaped to the UK in 1876 and later moved to Switzerland. Expelled from Switzerland in 1881, he went to France, where he was imprisoned 1883-86. He lived in Britain until 1917, when he returned to Moscow. Among his works are Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899), Mutual Aid (1902), and Modern Science and Anarchism (1903).

Kropotkin was a noted geologist and geographer. In 1879 he launched an anarchist journal, Le Révolté. Unsympathetic to the Bolsheviks, he retired from politics after the Russian Revolution.