Robert K. Massie’s Followers (1,015)

More followers…

Robert K. Massie

Born

in Lexington, The United States

January 01, 1929

Genre

History

edit data

Robert Kinloch Massie (born 1929) is an American historian, writer, winner of a Pulitzer Prize, and a Rhodes Scholar.

Born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1929, Massie spent much of his youth in Nashville, Tennessee and currently resides in Westchester County, New York in the village of Irvington. He studied American history at Yale University and modern European history at Oxford University on his Rhodes Scholarship. Massie went to work as a journalist for Newsweek from 1959 to 1964 and then took a position at the Saturday Evening Post.

After he and his family left America for France, Massie wrote and published his breakthrough book, Nicholas and Alexandra, a biography of the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra of Hesse, and thei ...more

Combine Editions
Robert K. Massie’s books

Average rating: 4.06 · 173,742 ratings · 7,949 reviews · 23 distinct works • Similar authors

	Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman 3.91 avg rating — 85,580 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nicholas and Alexandra 4.26 avg rating — 21,748 ratings — published 1967 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peter the Great: His Life and World 4.23 avg rating — 11,175 ratings — published 1980 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Romanovs: The Final Chapter 4.04 avg rating — 5,858 ratings — published 1995 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dreadnought 4.30 avg rating — 5,499 ratings — published 1991 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Castles of Steel 4.36 avg rating — 2,721 ratings — published 2003 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Courts of Europe: Royal Family Album 1860-1914 by Robert K. Massie (Contributor), Jeffrey Finestone 4.37 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Journey by Robert K. Massie, Suzanne Massie 4.30 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 1975 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Romanovs - Box Set: Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra: The story of the Romanovs 4.41 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Petar Veliki: Njegov život i svet – I tom by Robert K. Massie, Dubravka Srećković Divković (Translator) 4.75 avg rating — 12 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by Robert K. Massie…

Upcoming Events

No scheduled events. Add an event.

Quotes by Robert K. Massie

“There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.”
― Robert Massie

tags: history

28 likes

“The love of power and the power to attract love were not easy to reconcile.”
― Robert K Massie, Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

18 likes

“To prove to [her friend, Swedish diplomat Count] Gyllenborg that she was not superficial, Catherine composed an essay about herself, "so that he would see whether I knew myself or not." The next day, she wrote and handed to Gyllenborg an essay titled 'Portrait of a Fifteen-Year-Old Philosopher.' He was impressed and returned it with a dozen pages of comments, mostly favorable. "I read his remarks again and again, many times [Catherine later recalled in her memoirs]. I impressed them on my consciousness and resolved to follow his advice. In addition, there was something else surprising: one day, while conversing with me, he allowed the following sentence to slip out: 'What a pity that you will marry! I wanted to find out what he meant, but he would not tell me.”
― Robert K. Massie, Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

tags: catherine-the-great, coming-of-age, independence, intelligence, marriage, matrimony, royalty, self-determination, self-knowledge

13 likes

See all Robert K. Massie's quotes »

Polls

Vote for our WWI non-fiction title for the March retreat. Last day to vote will be October 22.

The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm

Juliet Nicolson

6 votes, 31.6%

The Guns of August

Barbara W. Tuchman

5 votes, 26.3%

Nicholas and Alexandra

Robert K. Massie

3 votes, 15.8%

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

Margaret MacMillan

2 votes, 10.5%

Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort

Edith Wharton

1 vote, 5.3%

Vimy

Pierre Berton

1 vote, 5.3%

The War to End All Wars: World War I

Russell Freedman

1 vote, 5.3%

19 total votes

comments and details

More...

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
The Next Best Boo...: Historical Fiction Advice	116	1444	Jun 10, 2009 12:24AM
European Royalty: Jan 15 - Feb 15: Nominating	11	40	Dec 05, 2009 11:17AM
European Royalty: July 15 - August 15: Nominating	5	30	Jun 07, 2010 10:36AM
European Royalty: July 15 - Aug 15: Nicholas & Alexandra	1	12	Jun 12, 2010 12:38PM
The History Book ...: 9. THE FIRST WORLD WAR ~ CHAPTER 10 (372-427) (04/25/10 - 05/02/10) ~ No spoilers, please	19	66	Aug 15, 2010 01:50PM
Pick-a-Shelf: If you don't post a quote, you are HISTORY!	36	98	Aug 16, 2010 12:54PM
The History Book ...: 6. THE FIRST WORLD WAR ~ CHAPTER 7 (204 - 256) (03/29/10 - 04/04/10) ~ No spoilers, please	96	76	Aug 22, 2010 07:00PM

More…

Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Robert to Goodreads.

Robert K. Massie’s Followers (1,015)

Robert K. Massie

Combine EditionsRobert K. Massie’s books

Upcoming Events

Quotes by Robert K. Massie

Polls

Topics Mentioning This Author

Combine Editions
Robert K. Massie’s books