Похороны П. А. Кропоткина (The Funeral of Peter Kropotkin)

The funeral of the famous anarchist Peter Kropotkin in Moscow on 13 February 1921 grew into a monumental demonstration. This was the last time the anarchist movement in Russia manifested itself. In the course of the same year it was to be smothered by the Bolshevik party, its leaders arrested, killed, on the run or deported. Deportation befell Grigori Maximov (1893-1950) who had represented the Russian Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists at Kropotkins burial. Maximov arranged for a photo report of the ce