About the book: 2002 / Pyotr Alekseevich Kropotkin... A few decades ago, the best people of Russia and the world bowed before this name. It so happened that gradually his name began to be forgotten. “Isn’t this the same Kropotkin, the anarchist theorist who managed to make an incredible escape from the Peter and Paul Fortress?” - they sometimes ask. Yes, that one. But to this it is necessary to add - an encyclopedist scientist, a philosopher of world significance, a pioneer traveler, a revolutionary who preached the ideas of a society without coercion and violence based on mutual assistance as a factor of evolution; became the founder of a number of sciences of the geological and geographical cycle, developed the theory of the Ice Age, collaborated on the Encyclopedia Britannica, introduced the United States to Russian literature; who predicted the inevitability of the establishment of a dictatorship if one party came to power, and strongly objected in letters to Lenin against the “Red Terror” organized by the Bolsheviks. And also a wonderful man of rare charm - “the white Christ coming from Russia,” as he said about him Oscar Wilde. Anyone who reads this book will be convinced how much the ideas of Pyotr Alekseevich Kropotkin turned out to be in many ways consonant with our time.