In 1975 Robert Massie and his then-wife Suzanne Massie chronicled their experiences as the parents of a hemophiliac child and the significant differences between the American and French health-care systems in their jointly-written book, Journey. In 1995, in his book The Romanovs: The Final Chapter, Massie updated Nicholas and Alexandra with much newly-discovered information. In 1971, the book was the basis of an Academy Award winning film of the same title. Massie's interest in the Imperial family was triggered by the birth of his son, Reverend and politician Robert Kinloch Massie IV, who was born with hemophilia-a hereditary disease that also afflicted Nicholas's son, Alexei. In 1969-before he and his family moved to France-Massie wrote and published his breakthrough book, Nicholas and Alexandra, a biography of the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia, Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra of Hesse. Massie went to work as a journalist for Newsweek from 1959 to 1962 and then took a position at the Saturday Evening Post. He studied United States and modern European history at Yale and Oxford University, respectively, on a Rhodes Scholarship.

He has devoted much of his career to studying the House of Romanov, Russia's royal family from 1613-1917.Born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1929, Massie spent much of his youth in Nashville, Tennessee and currently resides in the village of Irvington, New York. Robert Kinloch Massie III is an American historian, author, Pulitzer Prize recipient.

Education-B.A., Yale University Oxford.

Impetuous and stubborn, generous and cruel, tender and unforgiving, a man of enormous energy and complexity, Peter the Great is brought fully to life.

Massie delves deep into the life of this captivating historical figure, chronicling the pivotal events that shaped a boy into a legend-including his “incognito” travels in Europe, his unquenchable curiosity about Western ways, his obsession with the sea and establishment of the stupendous Russian navy, his creation of an unbeatable army, his transformation of Russia, and his relationships with those he loved most: Catherine, the robust yet gentle peasant, his loving mistress, wife, and successor and Menshikov, the charming, bold, unscrupulous prince who rose to wealth and power through Peter’s friendship.

Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, crowned co-tsar at the age of ten.

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