Rurik Kropotkin Essay

December of 1842 saw the birth of Prince Pyotr Alekseyevich Kropotkin to Prince of Smolensk, Aleksei Petrovich Kropotkin, of the Rurik dynasty, which had ruled Russia before the rise of the Romanovs, and Yekaterina Nikolaevna Sulima, the daughter of a Cossack general. Kropotkin, under republican teachings by French tutors, came to dislike the use of titles and so chose to quit using his at the age of twelve. He is remembered as rebuking anyone who referred to him with his title, though this was not a decision he shared with his family.
At the age of ten, Kropotkin’s future training was determined when, at a costume ball in Moscow in which the children of nobility were required to attend, Tsar Alexander II took a special interest in him. As a result, the young Kropotkin was invited to attend the Corps of Pages in St. Petersburg, which historical author Roger Baldwin writes in Kropotkin’s Revolutionary Pamphlets: A Collection of Writings by Peter Kropotkin, “…combined the character of military school and the special rights of a court institution attached to the
Petersburg and Moscow and for publishing articles that were written by Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, and others. Kropotkin was arrested in 1874 and imprisoned. In 1876 he made a daring escape and fled the country, thus exiling himself for the next four decades. It was while he was in this exile that Kropotkin wrote his most famous philosophies on anarchism. Bibliography
Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, and Roger N. Baldwin. Kropotkins revolutionary pamphlets: a collection of writings. New York, NY: Dover Publications, 1970.
Riggenbach, Jeff. "The Anarchism of Peter Kropotkin." Mises Institute. February 23, 2011. Accessed October 19, 2017. https://mises.org/library/anarchism-peter-kropotkin.
Kropotkin, Pjotr A., and Georg Brandes. Memoirs of a revolutionist. London: Smith & Elder,