Quotes by : Robert K. Massie

In January in Northern Russia, everything vanishes beneath a deep blanket of whiteness. Rivers, fields,....

There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.

Peter, who broke his enemies on the rack and hanged them in Red Square, who had his son tortured to death,....

This marriage had resulted from impulse: he had seen her on a high-flying swing at Tsarkoe Selo and her....

Books were her refuge. Having set herself to learn the Russian language, she read every Russian book....

To prove to [her friend, Swedish diplomat Count] Gyllenborg that she was not superficial, Catherine composed....

She had dealt with her pregnancy by wrapping herself in dreams.

In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.

She (historian Barbara Tuchman) draws on skepticism, not cynicism, leaving the reader not so much outraged....