He served in the early 1950s as a nuclear targeting officer in the United States Navy, in the period around the Korean War. While at Oxford, Massie played on the Oxford University Men's Basketball Team. He earned degrees in American studies from Yale University and as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. He was raised there and in Nashville, Tennessee. Massie was born in Versailles, Kentucky, to Robert Massie, Jr., an educator, and Molly, née Kimball, an activist for progressive causes. It starred Laurence Olivier, Michael Jayston, and Janet Suzman. His book Nicholas and Alexandra (1967) was adapted as a British film by the same name that was released in 1971. He also received awards for his book Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (2011). Massie was awarded the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for Peter the Great: His Life and World. He devoted much of his career to studying and writing about the House of Romanov, Russia's imperial family from 1613 to 1917. Robert Kinloch Massie III (Janu– December 2, 2019) was an American journalist and historian.
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