Born a Russian Prince, Peter Kropotkin became the leading theorist of the political philosophy of Anarchism. This is Kropotkin's autobiography, recounting his life as the son of a Russian noble, his experiences as a boy in the Court of the Russian Tsar, his work in Siberia as a professional geologist, his involvement with radical student groups and his conversion to Anarchism, his arrest and subsequent escape from the Peter and Paul prison, and his political work in Western Europe.