# Father — Memoirs of a Revolutionist character guide > Father in Memoirs of a Revolutionist by Peter Kropotkin. **Role:** supporting **Also known as:** Father **First appearance:** 0003-i ## Snapshot A Russian prince and army officer whose household, with its serfs, tutors, and military discipline, becomes his son's first schoolroom in the injustice of rank. ## Who they are Kropotkin's father rules his estate and his children with the same unbending sense of prerogative, expecting obedience as a matter of birth and brooking no argument from a boy who questions it. The friction between the general's autocratic temper and his son's early, stubborn sympathy for the serfs turns the family home into a quiet battlefield of conscience. That tension matters because it plants the question the whole memoir will pursue: how a child raised inside privilege learns to see the machinery of privilege as something to be dismantled. ## Relationships ### [Peter Kropotkin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/characters/peter_kropotkin) _family_ Kropotkin's father was a strict, aristocratic landowner who held traditional expectations for his son, creating a relationship of duty and tension. ### [Alexander II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/characters/alexander_ii) _professional_ Alexander II and Kropotkin's father had a formal relationship as tsar and noble subject, with the father serving the imperial court. ### [Másha](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/characters/masha) _family_ Masha was a servant or serf in the Kropotkin household, with a complex relationship of dependency and affection with the father. ### [General Timofeev](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/characters/general_timofeev) _social_ Kropotkin's father and General Timofeev were fellow aristocrats and military men, likely acquaintances in the same social circles. ### [Peter Kropotkin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/characters/peter_kropotkin) _family_ Kropotkin's father was a strict, aristocratic landowner who held traditional expectations for his son, creating a relationship of duty and tension. ### [Peter Kropotkin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/characters/peter_kropotkin) _family_ Kropotkin's father was a strict, aristocratic landowner who held traditional expectations for his son, creating a relationship of duty and tension. ### [Alexander II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/characters/alexander_ii) _professional_ Alexander II and Kropotkin's father had a formal relationship as tsar and noble subject, with the father serving the imperial court. ### [Másha](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/characters/masha) _family_ Masha was a servant or serf in the Kropotkin household, with a complex relationship of dependency and affection with the father. ### [Másha](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/characters/masha) _family_ Masha was a servant or serf in the Kropotkin household, with a complex relationship of dependency and affection with the father. ## In the story ### [Memoirs of a Revolutionist](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/memoirs-of-a-revolutionist) Peter's father, a conservative figure whose authority contrasted with Peter's growing rebelliousness. ### [Part I: Childhood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/part-i-childhood) Kropotkin's father, a retired army officer and landowner, who embodies the autocratic and serf-owning aristocracy. ### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/i) Kropotkin's father, a retired officer who held a quiet position in Moscow and owned houses in the quarter. ### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/ii) Seldom seen by the children after their mother's death. ### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/iii) A typical officer of Nicholas I's time, proud of his family's noble origins and military decorum. ### [Two Years After Mother's Death: A New Life Begins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/iv) The prince who remarries and imposes a strict educational regime with a French tutor. ### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/v) Delighted by Peter's appointment as page candidate; dreams of a court career for his son. ### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/vi) Kropotkin's father, a rich landed proprietor who owned nearly twelve hundred serfs, maintained a large household with many servants and a private band, and was known for his leniency and patronage despite fits of rage. ### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/vii) Prince Alexéi Petróvich Kropotkin; issues detailed orders for provisioning and migration, maintains strict discipline. ### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/viii) Peter's father; a strict landowner who punishes serfs, but later reflects on serfdom after abolition. ### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/ix) Mentioned as part of the family; the household's reaction to war news is described. ### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/ix) Stepmother's sisters arrived as refugees from Sebastopol; she warned against speaking before the men. ### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/iii) Kropotkin's father, who forbade the brothers from meeting and read their letters. ### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/iv) Proposes Peter travel by public carriage to save his stepmother a double journey. ### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/viii) The author's father, a landlord who sold land in anticipation of emancipation and later had his Tambóv estate rented by the mir. ### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/i) Displeased with Peter's abandonment of military service; hates civilian dress. ### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/vii) Ailing and bewildered by the changes around him; dies shortly after the visit. ## Links - HTML: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/characters/father - Book: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se - All characters: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/characters