Alexandra Kropotkin | |
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Born | Bromley, London, England | April 15, 1887
Died | July 4, 1966 New York City, U.S. | (aged 79)
Other names | Sasha Kropotkin |
Occupation(s) | Writer, translator |
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Alexandra "Sasha" Kropotkin (1887–1966) was a New York-based writer and Russian language translator. Born in British exile to the Russian scientist and anarchist Peter Kropotkin, the socially prominent family returned to Russia from the 1917 revolution through his death several years later. Upon moving to New York, in her women's column byline she retained the royal honorific ("princess") that her father, a descendant of Kropotkin nobility, had disowned. She translated Russian literature into English and wrote a Russian cookbook that The New York Times considered best-in-class.