Simon Sebag Montefiore

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Simon Sebag-Montefiore (2010)

Simon Jonathan Sebag Montefiore (born June 27, 1965 in London ) is a British historian , journalist and author . He is mainly concerned with Russian history.

Life

Simon Sebag Montefiore, who grew up in a Jewish family, studied history at Gonville and Caius College , Cambridge . He made several extensive trips to the former Soviet Union , especially to the Caucasus , Ukraine and Central Asia . Montefiore lives in London with his wife and two children .

He wrote a biography of Grigory Alexandrovich Potemkin (a companion of Catherine the Great ) and an extensive two-volume biography of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin , which has been translated into several languages.

Montefiore sees a parallel between Vladimir Putin and the tsars, namely both the great fear of being overthrown and “the total belief in himself that he alone can save Russia.” Putin is convinced that this “rescue” is “a nationalist autocracy orthodox faith ”, which Putin would have expanded. Concerning Donald Trump 's sympathy with Putin, which he saw more than temporarily in the 2016 election campaign , Montefiore said: "Trump (...) has no idea of ​​Russian rule."

Simon Sebag-Montefiore is the brother of Hugh Sebag-Montefiore and is married to the British writer Santa Montefiore , with whom he has two children, Lily and Sasha.

criticism

For his books about the young Stalin and life in the immediate vicinity of Stalin ( Stalin. At the court of the red tsar ), which were very successful with the public , the author is one of several historians who research the history of Stalinism and the history of Russia and the Soviet Union , been criticized. These books are sensational and do not meet scientific standards. Montefiore embodies "a novel phenomenon in Stalinism research - the undisguised endeavor to bring Stalin's life and rule to the largest possible mass audience in an easily consumable form and in this way to exploit them commercially."

Awards

Works (selection)

  • Young Stalin. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-297-85068-7 .
    • German: The young Stalin. The early life of the dictator 1878–1917 . Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 2007, ISBN 3-10-050608-1
  • Stalin. The court of the red tsar . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2004, ISBN 1-84212-726-8 .
    • German: Stalin. At the court of the red tsar . Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 2006, ISBN 3-596-17251-9 (translated by Hans Günter Holl)
  • Catherine the Great and Potemkin. The imperial love affair .
    • German: Katharina the Great and Prince Potemkin. An imperial affair . Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt / M. 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-18275-6
  • Sashenka. A novel . Simon & Schuster, New York 2008, ISBN 978-1-4165-9555-7 (EA London 2008)
  • Jerusalem. A biography . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2011, ISBN 978-0-297-85265-0 .
    • German: Jerusalem. The biography . S. Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-050611-5 (translated by Ulrike Bischoff)
  • The Romanovs. 1613-1918 . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2014, ISBN 978-0-297-85266-7 .
    • German: The Romanovs. Glory and fall of the Tsar dynasty 1613–1918 . S. Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-050610-8 .
  • One night in winter. A novel . Harper Books, New York 2014, ISBN 978-0-06-229188-2 .
  • King's parade . Penguin Books, London 1992, ISBN 0-14-014302-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Simon Sebag Montefiore in Weltwoche 03/17 on January 19, 2017
  2. ↑ See From the Editors. Marketing Russian History . In: Kritika. Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History / New Series , Vol. 9 (2008), Issue 3, pp. 497-504, ISSN  1531-023X
  3. ↑ Andreas Oberender: Approaches to an incomprehensible. Stalin and his biographers . In: Osteuropa , Vol. 62 (2012), Issue 4, pp. 37–51, here. P. 47, ISSN  0030-6428
  4. ↑ a b Translated by Bernd Rullkötter.
  5. ↑ The first edition appeared under the title “Prince of Princes. The Life of Potemkin. The Imperial Love Affair "and the paperback edition was entitled" Potemkin. Prince of Princes ".
  6. ↑ a b Translated by Ulrike Wasel.

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personal data
SURNAME Sebag Montefiore, Simon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sebag Montefiore, Simon Jonathan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian, journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH London