- Born
- December 9, 1842
- Died
- February 8, 1921 (aged 78)
- Known as
- geographer, writer, explorer, philosopher, autobiographer, journalist
Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin was a Russian anarchist political philosopher and geographer known as a proponent of anarchist communism.
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