When and where was Peter Kropotkin born?
Peter Kropotkin was born in Moscow on the 9th of December 1842. He entered the Page Corps, an elite school for imperial attendants, at age eight after Tsar Nicholas I commended his costume at a royal ball.
Questions about Peter Kropotkin
Short answers, pulled from the story.
What scientific discovery did Peter Kropotkin make during his 1866 Olekminsk-Vitimsk expedition?
Measurements from his 1866 Olekminsk-Vitimsk expedition confirmed that the area between the Ural Mountains and the Pacific Ocean was a plateau rather than a plain. This discovery won him a gold medal from the Russian Geographical Society and led to the commercialization of the Lena gold fields.
Why was Peter Kropotkin arrested in March 1874?
Peter Kropotkin's arrest for agitation occurred in March 1874 when the Third Section secret police came for him. He had just filed his Ice Age report and been elected president of the Geographical Society's Physical and Mathematical Department before being held in the Peter and Paul Fortress.
How did Peter Kropotkin contribute to anarchist theory with Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution published in 1902?
In 1902 Kropotkin published his book Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution which gave an alternative view of animal and human survival by arguing that it was an evolutionary emphasis on cooperation instead of competition in the Darwinian sense that made for the success of species including humans.
When did Peter Kropotkin die and what happened to his Moscow house after his death?
He died of pneumonia on the 8th of February 1921. After Kropotkin's 1921 death the Bolsheviks permitted his Moscow house to become a Kropotkin Museum which closed in 1938 with his wife's death.