Massie, Nicholas and AlexandraĪ monarchy falls. They have failed and we must now shoot you.'" He stepped forward and declared quickly, 'Your relations have tried to save you. When all were assembled, Yurovsky reentered the room, followed by his entire Cheka squad carrying revolvers. Inside, sewed deep into the feathers, was a box containing a collection of the Imperial jewels. Demidova carried two pillows, one of which she placed in the chair behind the Empress's back. Botkin, the valet Trupp, the cook Kharitonov and Demidova, the Empress's parlormaid. Behind their mother stood the four girls and Dr. Nicholas took another, using his arm and shoulder to support Alexis, who lay back across the third chair. Yurovsky ordered three chairs brought and Alexandra took one. "Nicholas asked for chairs so that his wife and son could sit while they waited. This book inspired a 1986 NBC mini-series that won three Emmy Awards, starring Maximilian Schell, Laurence Olivier and Vanessa Redgrave. Massie won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for Peter the Great: His Life and World. In 1975, Robert Massie and his then-wife Suzanne chronicled their experiences as the parents of a hemophiliac child and the significant differences between the American and French healthcare 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. Robert Kinloch Massie, who suffers from hemophilia, a hereditary disease that also afflicted the last Tsar's son, Alexei.
Massie's interest in the Tsar's family was triggered by the birth of his son, the Rev. Massie went to work as a journalist for Newsweek from 1959 to 1964 and then took a position at the Saturday Evening Post.Īfter 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 their family and cultural/political milieu. He studied American history at Yale University and modern European history at Oxford University on his Rhodes Scholarship. Robert Kinloch Massie was an American historian, writer, winner of a Pulitzer Prize, and a Rhodes Scholar.īorn in Versailles, Kentucky, Massie spent much of his youth there and in Nashville, Tennessee.
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