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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “My dream was to enter the university--to study, to live the student’s life.”

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My dream was to enter the university--to study, to live the student’s life.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin shares his aspiration to experience university life and education.

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