Robert K. Massie

Robert Kinloch Massie III is an American historian, author and Pulitzer Prize recipient. He has devoted much of his career to studying the House of Romanov, Russia's royal family from 1613-1917. Robert Kinloch Massie III was born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1929. He spent much of his youth in Nashville, Tennessee and currently resides in the village of Irvington, New York. 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 1959-62 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, Aleksey Nikolaevich. In 1971 the book was the basis of an Academy Award-winning film of the same title.
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