About the Author

Simon Sebag Montefiore was born in 1965 and read history at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University. Jerusalem: the Biography was awarded the Jewish Book of the Year Prize by the Jewish Book Council (USA), Catherine the Great & Potemkin was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson, Duff Cooper, and Marsh Biography Prizes. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar won the History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book Awards. Young Stalin won the Costa Biography Award (UK), the LA Times Book Prize for Biography (US), Le Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique (France) and the Kreisky Prize for Political Literature (Austria). Montefiore’s books are published in over 35 languages. He is also the author of the  novel, Sashenka. He is now writing his next history book: THE ROMANOVS. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he lives in London with his wife, the novelist Santa Montefiore, and their two children. He has recently been apppointed Visiting Professor at the School of Humanities Research at the University of Buckingham.