Quote of the day
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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)