Schapiro, like several other anarchists, had regularly visited Kropotkin. While carefully avoiding the question of the war, they had long discussions on the situation in Russia.Woodcock & Avakumović 1950, pp. 408, 412. In January 1921, Kropotkin, almost eighty years old and living in Dmitrov, a suburb of Moscow, contracted pneumonia. Schapiro, with Goldman and Nikolai Ivanovich Pavlov, took a train to visit him, but their train was delayed and they arrived an hour after he died on February 8. Schapiro and Berkman were part of a commission formed by the country's anarchist groups to organize Kropotkin's funeral.Avrich & Avrich 2012, p. 310, Rodenburg 2014, p. 243, Woodcock & Avakumović 1950, pp. 433–434. The funeral drew 20,000 anarchists and was the last anarchist demonstration in communist Russia.Avrich 1967, p. 227, Thorpe 1989, p. 169.
