The Romanovs: The Final Chapter (54 page)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

R
OBERT
K. M
ASSIE
was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and studied American history at Yale and modern European history at Oxford, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He was president of the Authors’ Guild from 1987 to 1991. His previous books include
Nicholas and Alexandra, Peter the Great: His Life and World
(for which he won a Pulitzer Prize for Biography),
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter
, and
Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War
.