Massie, spent almost half a century studying Tsarist Russia, his personal interest in the last Imperial family was triggered by the birth of his eldest son Robert Jr., who was born with hemophilia, a hereditary disease that also afflicted Tsar Nicholas II’s son, Alexei. In 1992, Massie remarried his literary agent Deborah Karl. His first wife, Suzanne Rohrback (from 1954 to 1990), an author whose books about Russian culture ( Land of the Firebird: The Beauty of Old Russia in 1980 and Pavlovsk: The Life of a Russian Palace in 1990), brought her to the attention of Ronald Reagan and into international politics.
Over the years, he worked as an historical adviser to, and has made frequent appearances on, a number of national television programs and documentaries. His writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, Architectural Digest, and other publications.
Massie was on the staff of Newsweek from 1959 to 1962, where he was a book reviewer, foreign news writer, and United Nations Bureau Chief. For four years, he served as an air intelligence officer aboard aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean and the Pacific. He later grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, graduated from Yale University, and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University where he read Modern History. Robert Kinloch Massie III was born in Versailles, Kentucky on 5 January 1929. The cause of death was complications associated with Alzheimer’s Disease. Massie, best known as author and historian of pre-Revolutionary Russia, passed away at his home in Irvington, New York at the age of 90.
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