Reviewing “Catherine the Great” for The New York Times, Kathryn Harrison praised Massie as both a scholar and literary stylist. Born in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1929, Robert Kinloch Massie was a “bright, fiery boy from an old Southern family,” Suzanne Massie once wrote. ADADMassie had read enough about Russian history to know that little had been told about the Tsarevich’s hemophilia. You could change people’s thinking about the whole subject,’” Massie wrote in “Journey,” published in 1975. “Then, as she talked about Russian history, Russian literature, the Russian church, the Russian people she had met, I began to see that there was a book that could be done, and that only we, as parents of a hemophiliac, could do it.”Copyright 2019 The Associated Press.

Source: Washington Post December 03, 2019 00:51 UTC