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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