Robert K. Massie

Robert K. Massie was an American journalist and historian. He devoted much of his career to studying and writing about 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". His book "Nicholas and Alexandra" (1967) was adapted into the 1971 Oscar-winning British film of the same name in 1971. Massie also served as a nuclear targeting officer in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War.