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Prince Peter Alekseevich Kropotkin fully mastered the art of remaining himself, living according to his own convictions and, if necessary, swimming against the current. For all the integrity of his nature, everything incompatible was combined in Kropotkin's personality. An official for special assignments, a budding administrator, a talented military intelligence officer, he abandoned his public career, initially for the sake of science. Philosopher, writer-memoirist and journalist, geographer, geologist, natural biologist, economist, ethnographer, sociologist, historian, literary critic - this is all he, Kropotkin, almost a second Lomonosov. However, revolutionary agitation, arrests and prisons, the famous escape and decades of life in exile became his true fate. He became an enemy not only of the Russian autocracy, but also of the "democratic" rulers of Europe, one of the true leaders of world anarchism and the leading theorist of anarchist communism, a thinker who can be considered the forerunner of the theory of post-industrial society... century was a moral authority not only for many Russians, but also for people from all continents of the globe, says the book of contemporary Russian historians Dmitry Rublev and Vadim Damier.