The memoirs of pupil of the Page corps, cossack officer, researcher-geographer, thinker, socialist-anarchist, prince Peter Alekseevich Кропоткина, present undoubted interest not only the first part in that an author tells about "military" and "research" phases of the life but also that Кропоткин, being a man by sincerely persons interested bloodless transformations for the good of man both in Russia and in everything world, is the brightest representative of прогрессора of the European standard of end of XIX of century, when in the light of liberalization, феминизации, in the light of declared all "civilized governments and societies" humanistic principles of world dormitory, and on a background the headily accelerated technical progress, a hope became stronger on that humanity will be able самоорганизоваться, as well as it becomes to reasonable биомассе. Alas, then there was a dream gold.