1. Sofia Grigorievna Kropotkina, commonly known by her anglicised name Sophie Kropotkin, was a Ukrainian teacher, writer, lecturer and museum director.
20 Facts About Sophie Kropotkin
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Sophie Kropotkin then moved to the United Kingdom, where she took up a career in teaching and went on lecture tours of the country, discussing the political issues of the Russian Empire and its revolutionary movement.
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Sophie Kropotkin worked as the director of a museum about his life and work, which she managed up until her death.
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Sophie Kropotkin instead enrolled at the University of Bern, where she began studying biology.
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On 21 December 1882, hours after Sophie's brother died, Peter Kropotkin was arrested by the French police.
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Sophie Kropotkin frequently visited him in prison, where she brought him books supplied by the French Academy of Sciences and Ernest Renan.
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In 1883, Sophie Kropotkin moved to Paris in order to complete her studies to become a Doctor of Science, staying with Elie Reclus.
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Sophie Kropotkin was initially only permitted to see him once every two months, but she insisted on seeing him more regularly, and was eventually permitted to see him every day.
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Sophie Kropotkin wrote to The Boston Globe, alleging that the French Republic's anti-communist laws had enabled him to be convicted without any evidence, and that it had been motivated by a desire to appease the Tsarist autocracy.
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That same year, Sophie Kropotkin moved to the United Kingdom, after Charlotte Wilson secured her a career as a teacher and public speaker.
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Sophie Kropotkin's husband wrote to Victor Dave that time in their garden had helped her recovery, reporting that it had been "more completely restorative than a stay in the very best sanatorium".
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In late 1886, after her brother-in-law Alexander Kropotkin committed suicide in his Siberian exile, Sophie took care of his sick and grieving widow, who managed to recover under her care.
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On one occasion, when a French journalist from the newspaper Le Figaro showed up at their house requesting an interview, Sophie Kropotkin slammed the door in his face.
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In 1910, the Sophie Kropotkin family travelled to Italy, where they stayed for a time in Rapallo.
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Sophie Kropotkin represented her husband in calls for Freedom to be suspended during the war, but the newspaper carried on without them, propagating an anti-war line.
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Sophie Kropotkin continued to care for her ailing husband throughout the war, while giving lectures on various subjects, including the prohibition of alcohol in Russia.
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In one of Peter's last letters, which he sent to Turin in June 1920, he remarked that Sophie Kropotkin had not aged, reporting that she stayed alert and kept herself busy gardening and haymaking.
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Sophie Kropotkin was attended to by his personal physician, Alexander Atabekian, while Sophie and Alexandra stayed by his side.
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Sophie Kropotkin declined the Bolshevik government's offer to hold a state funeral and instead established an anarchist committee to organise it themselves; the funeral attracted 20,000 attendees.
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Sophie Kropotkin herself died in 1941 and her body was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.