Sophie Kropotkin

Princess Sofia Kropotkina
Софія Кропоткіна
Kropotkin (c. 1880)
Born	Sofia Grigorievna Ananieva-Rabinovich 1856 (1856) Kiev, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
Died	1938(1938-00-00) (aged 81–82) Moscow, Soviet Union
Resting place	Novodevichy Cemetery
Education	University of Bern
Occupation(s)	Educator, lecturer, writer
Organization	Kropotkin Museum
Spouse	Peter Kropotkin ​ ​ (m. 1878; died 1921)​
Children	Alexandra Kropotkin

Sofia Grigorievna Kropotkina (née Ananieva-Rabinovich; 1856–1938), commonly known by her anglicised name Sophie Kropotkin, was a Ukrainian teacher, writer, lecturer and museum director. Born into a Ukrainian Jewish family, she grew up in Tomsk, where her father ran a gold mine. After coming of age, moved to Switzerland, where she pursued a degree in biology at the University of Bern and met Peter Kropotkin, who she married. When her husband was arrested and imprisoned by the French government, she actively campaigned for his release, drawing sympathy from much of the Western press. She 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. After the Russian Revolution, she and her family moved to Moscow, where her husband died in 1921. She worked as the director of a museum about his life and work, which she managed up until her death.