Peter Alekseevich Kropotkin (1842–1921) is an amazing, but in some ways very typical figure of Russian history: a prince from an old family who became a revolutionary, an encyclopedist immersed in politics, an anarchist who sharply criticized violence and the “Red Terror” " He became famous as a geographer and explorer of the North, a historian and philosopher, a literary critic and the author of the brilliant “Notes of a Revolutionary.” The Provisional Government offered him the post of minister, but he refused with the words: “I consider the bootblack job to be more honest and useful.” Throughout the world, the name of Kropotkin is surrounded by honor, but in Russia they returned to the study of his personality and ideas only recently. His first biography in the “ZhZL” series, written by historian and geographer Vyacheslav Markin, is the most complete biography of the famous anarchist theorist. This book will be useful to anyone interested in Russian history and philosophy of the 19th–20th centuries.