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Show MOIST P1CEIS DEAD Son of Noble Birth Who Joined Nihilists Had Exciting Ex-citing Career LONDON, JS. 20. Prince peter Al-exelvlcb Al-exelvlcb ICropotkln, Russian geograph- i, author ami revolutionary leader. Is dead in .Moscow, says a Copenhagen dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph com peny. Prim c Kropolkm was descended from the old Russian nobility und was horn ut Moscow In lS41'. It was bis father'. pun that he should cuter the ii m. and at the age of 16 he entered ;li- ...ips of puK'- ..I I'.-! iiji i ad Here hi remained until mhj. when he was s-igned to a Siberian Cossack regi-men) regi-men) in the Amur dlstn. i Bl M1 S MIHILI81 f'lllice Kropotkiti resigned from tbS army in 187 and returned io Petro-Krad. Petro-Krad. where he entered the universltv und became secretary to the phvslcal gi'.iRia.h section .f tin- Russian" l Je,,. Oi Ii tj i, IS7J Iip aiinoiiiic- '-I in- Socialistic views, visiting Switzerland Switz-erland later in the same vear and be-oin.iiK be-oin.iiK S member of the international v orkingmen's association at Geneva The tendencies or this bodv were nol ndvanced enough for his vc ,,,, , short time later he definltelv adopted tbe i reed ..r anarchism, returning 10 ROSSIS and taking an active part in I treading Nihlllsi propaganda in 1174 wa arrested and Imprisoned, but escaped two years later and managed to fl. e from Russia to England. It. Lum'I1 lo L!" conUnenl and expelled from Switzerland hv the gov-eminent gov-eminent ,,f that countn followlna the aseaaatnatlon of Emperor Aiexan-b, U. of Russia in i ,si POOR IN oi.li t.i Tlie remainder of his period of lie was spent for the In0i part PI . manj and PTance. although be spent """If l,m- n England. He returned o Ruaela to 1P17 and was invited to l"Bi Recent dU- patc l.e, hav e reprted him in strait -b,r'rCUrn"ll,nr'e" iermnnt-sistance iermnnt-sistance to be sent him. |