Alexandra Kropotkin | |
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 Portrait by Gerald Kelly, c. 1922 | |
| Born | April 15, 1887 Bromley, London, England |
| Died | July 4, 1966 (aged 79) New York City, U.S. |
| Other names | Sasha Kropotkin |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, translator |
| Father | Peter Kropotkin |
Alexandra "Sasha" Kropotkin (1887–1966) was a New York-based writer and Russian language translator. Her parents, Russian scientist and anarchist Peter Kropotkin and his wife Sophia Kropotkin, were a socially prominent family descended from Kropotkin nobility. Alexandra was born while they were in exile in Great Britain; they returned to Russia after the 1917 revolution and lived there until her father's death, after which she emigrated to New York. Although her father had disowned his royal title, Alexandra reclaimed it by writing a women's column for the magazine Liberty under the byline "Princess Alexandra Kropotkin". She also translated Russian literature into English and wrote a Russian cookbook that The New York Times considered "best-in-class".