Robert K. Massie

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Robert Kinloch Massie III (born January 5, 1929 in Versailles , Kentucky , † December 2, 2019 in Irvington , New York ) was an American historian who published several books on the Russian aristocratic Romanov family .

Life

Robert Kinloch Massie III. grew up in Nashville , Tennessee . He studied American and European history at Yale University and, with the help of a Rhodes scholarship, at the University of Oxford . He then became a journalist for Newsweek and The Saturday Evening Post . In 1967 he and his family moved to France. He previously published Nicholas and Alexandra: An Intimate Account of the Last of the Romanovs and the Fall of Imperial Russia , a biography about Nicholas II and Alix von Hessen-Darmstadt , the last monarchical rulers of Russia. It represented his breakthrough as a historian and was translated into German and made into a film under the title Nikolaus und Alexandra . In 1995 he published an updated version of his book, The Romanovs: The Final Chapter .

For his second biography, Peter the Great: His Life and World, about Peter I , Massie was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Best Biography in 1981. Under the title Peter the Great , the book was made into a mini-series in 1986 with actors such as Maximilian Schell , Laurence Olivier and Vanessa Redgrave .

Massie was married twice. From the marriage with the author Suzanne Rohrbach from 1954 to 1990 three children were born. He had another child with his second wife, Deborah L. Karl, with whom he had been married since 1992.

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  • Nicholas and Alexandra. An Intimate Account of the Last of the Romanovs and the Fall of Imperial Russia. Athenum, New York NY 1967.
    • Nikolaus and Alexandra. The last Romanovs and the end of tsarist Russia. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1968.
  • with Suzanne Massie: Journey. Knopf, New York NY 1975, ISBN 0-394-49018-5 .
  • Peter the Great. His Life and World. Knopf, New York NY 1980, ISBN 0-394-50032-6 .
    • Peter the Great. His life and his time. Athenaeum, Königstein / Ts. 1982, ISBN 3-7610-8129-4 .
  • Dreadnought. Britain, Germany, and the coming of the Great War. Random House, New York NY 1991, ISBN 0-394-52833-6 .
    • The bowls of anger. Great Britain, Germany and the approach of the First World War. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-10-048907-1 .
  • The Romanovs. The Final Chapter. Random House, New York NY 1995, ISBN 0-394-58048-6 .
  • Castles of Steel. Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea. Balantine Books, New York NY 2003, ISBN 0-345-40878-0 .
  • Catherine the Great. Portrait of a woman. Random House, New York NY 2011, ISBN 978-0-679-45672-8 .

Award

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Douglas Martin: Robert K. Massie, Narrator of Russian History, Is Dead at 90. In: The New York Times , December 2, 2019 (English). Retrieved December 3, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Massie, Robert K.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Massie, Robert Kinloch III (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Versailles , Kentucky , United States
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 2019
Place of death Irvington , New York