Robert K. Massie

Robert K. Massie was an American journalist and historian who devoted much of his career to the House of Romanov, Russia's imperial family from 1613 to 1917. His biography Peter the Great: His Life and World won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and his later book Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman also earned awards. His earlier book Nicholas and Alexandra (1967) was adapted into a British film released in 1971. Massie died in 2019.