Robert K. Massie  

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Robert Kinloch Massie III (January 5, 1929 – December 2, 2019) was an American journalist and historian. He devoted much of his career to studying the House of Romanov, Russia's imperial family from 1613 to 1917. Massie was awarded the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for Peter the Great: His Life and World.

Early life and education

Massie was born in Versailles, Kentucky, to Robert Massie, Jr., an educator, and Molly, née Kimball, an activist for progressive causes, and was raised there and in Nashville. He earned degrees in American studies from Yale University and as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University before serving as a nuclear targeting officer in the United States Navy in the early 1950s.




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