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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “The letter she wrote to her mother a few hours before she went to the scaffold is one of the best expressions of a…”

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The letter she wrote to her mother a few hours before she went to the scaffold is one of the best expressions of a loving soul that a woman’s heart ever dictated.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin describes the emotional depth of Peróvskaya's final letter to her mother before her execution.

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