Robert Massie
| Robert K. Massie | |
|---|---|
| Born | Robert Kinloch Massie III January 5, 1929 Lexington, Kentucky, United States |
| Occupation | Historian, biographer |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Yale University University of Oxford |
Robert Kinloch Massie III (born 1929) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian and biographer. He has devoted much of his career to studying the House of Romanov, Russia's royal family from 1613 to 1917.
Massie was born in Lexington, Kentucky. He spent much of his youth in Nashville, Tennessee and currently resides in the New York village of Irvington. He studied United States and European history at Yale and Oxford University, respectively, on a Rhodes Scholarship. Massie worked as a journalist for Newsweek from 1959 to 1962 before taking a position at the Saturday Evening Post.
In 1967 before he and his family moved to France, Massie wrote and published his breakthrough book, Nicholas and Alexandra, a biography of Nicholas II and Alexandra of Hesse, the last Emperor and Empress of Russia. Massie's interest in the Imperial family was triggered by the birth of his son, Robert Kinloch Massie IV, who was born with hemophilia—a hereditary disease that also afflicted Nicholas's son, Alexis Nikolaevich. In 1971 the book was the basis of an Academy Award-winning film of the same title, which starred Michael Jayston alongside Janet Suzman. In 1995, in his book The Romanovs: The Final Chapter, Massie updated Nicholas and Alexandra with much newly discovered information.
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