Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Robert K. Massie

Born: January 5, 1929
Died: December 2, 2019 (aged 90)
Bio: Robert Kinloch Massie III was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian and biographer. He had devoted much of his career to studying the House of Romanov, Russia's royal family from 1613 to 1917.
Known for:
- Nicholas and Alexandra (1967)
- Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (2011)
- Peter the Great: His Life and World (1981)
- The Romanovs - The Final Chapter (1995)
- Dreadnought (1991)