Peter Kropotkin. The life of an anarchist. Damier, Rublev

Prince Pyotr Alekseevich Kropotkin fully owned the art of remaining himself, living by his own convictions and, if necessary, sail against the current. With all the integrity of his nature in the personality of Kropotkin, all the most incompatible was combined. The official of special instructions, the administrator, a talented military intelligence officer, gives hopes, he abandoned the state career, initially - for the sake of science. The philosopher, the writer-memoirist and journalist, geographer, geologist, biologist-guide, economist, ethnographer, sociologist, historian, literary critic are all he, Kropotkin, almost the second Lomonosov. However, his genuine fate was revolutionary agitation, arrests and prisons, the famous escape and decades of life in exile. He became an enemy of not only the Russian autocracy, but also the “democratic” rulers of Europe, one of the genuine leaders of world anarchism and the leading theoretician of anarchist communism, a thinker who can be considered the forerunner of the theory of post -industrial society... About a man who in the late XIX - early XX centuries were moral authority not only for many Russians, but also for people from all continents of the globe, says the book of modern domestic historians Dmitry Rublev and Vadim Damier.