United States presidential election, Kropotkin supported the conservative Barry Goldwater. While living in London, Kropotkin had a relationship and brief affair with author W. Somerset Maugham. Several of Maugham's characters are based on her. The two later reunited in Russia when Maugham was on an espionage mission and Kropotkin volunteered as his translator. She introduced Maugham to Alexander Kerensky, attended their weekly dinners, and sometimes hosted at her apartment. Kropotkin married Boris Lebedev, a young Social Revolutionary Party member, in 1910. They divorced in 1920. While in Russia, Kropotkin met the newspaper journalist Lorimer Hammond, whom she married in August 1927. Her only child, an ambulance nurse, died in London in 1944. Kropotkin died in New York on July 4, 1966. References External links Full text of How to Cook and Eat in Russian 1887 births 1966 deaths People from Bromley People from New York City Soviet emigrants to the United States American cookbook writers American translators Peter Kropotkin 20th-century translators Expatriates from the Russian Empire in the United Kingdom