# Dmitri Kelnitz — Memoirs of a Revolutionist character guide

> Dmitri Kelnitz in Memoirs of a Revolutionist by Peter Kropotkin.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Dmitri Kelnitz, Kelnitz

**First appearance:** 0024-i

## Who they are

A fellow officer and friend in Siberia.

## Relationships

### [Peter Kropotkin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/characters/peter_kropotkin)

_friendship_

Kelnitz was a fellow student and later revolutionary companion of Kropotkin, sharing youthful idealism and activism.

### [Peter Kropotkin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/characters/peter_kropotkin)

_friendship_

Kelnitz was a fellow student and later revolutionary companion of Kropotkin, sharing youthful idealism and activism.

## In the story

### [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/xiii)

Kropotkin's university friend who invites him to join the Circle of Tchaikovsky; described as intelligent, selfless, and sarcastic.

### [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/xiv)

Circle member who humorously suggested the police keep a list of his books to avoid repeated searches.

### [The Net Tightens](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/xvi)

Continues visiting workers despite danger; forced to flee St. Petersburg to avoid arrest.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/i)

Friend who went to the Balkan peninsula to join insurgents against Turkish oppression.

### [The Struggle Intensifies](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/viii)

Kropotkin's cousin, the governor-general of Kharkov, who was shot by revolutionaries after failing to stop the ill-treatment of prisoners in a central prison under his orders.

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