Pulitzer Prize-winner specialized in bestselling and critically praised biographies of the Russian czars
Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who specialized in bestselling and critically praised biographies of the Russian czars and discovered a personal connection to the country’s past through a blood disorder that afflicted both his son and the son of Nicholas II, has died at his home in New York.
“Massie, who has spent almost half a century studying czarist Russia, has always been a biographer with the instincts of a novelist,” the New York Times’ Kathryn Harrison wrote. “He understands plot — fate — as a function of character, and the narrative perspective he establishes and maintains, a vision tightly aligned with that of his subject, convinces a reader he’s not so much looking at Catherine the Great as he is out of her eyes.
His other works included “The Romanovs,” which tackled the mystery of the royal family’s remains after they were executed in 1918 by the Bolsheviks, and a pair of books about the military rivalry between Britain and Germany in the early 20th century: “Dreadnought” and “Castles of Steel.”Massie and his first wife, Suzanne, collaborated in the mid-1970s on “Journey,” a memoir about their son. The couple, who also collaborated on “Nicholas and Alexandra,” divorced in 1990.
By the mid-1960s, he was struggling to keep up with their son’s medical bills and was frustrated professionally. For years, he had been anxious to write about hemophilia. He submitted a story to Reader’s Digest in the late 1950s but was turned down, and was no more successful while at Newsweek. The Saturday Evening Post did run a story by Massie in 1963, but declined a separate sketch on the czar’s son.
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