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How did Piotr Alekseyevich Kropotkin earn his reputation as a geographer?

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He came from a wealthy princely family and as a boy was a page to the czar. Repelled by court life, he obtained permission to serve as an army officer in Siberia, where his explorations and scientific observations established his reputation as a geographer.

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