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Simon Sebag Montefiore is the author of the global bestsellers 'The Romanovs' and 'Jerusalem: the Biography,' 'Stalin: the Court of the Red Tsar' and Young Stalin and the novels Sashenka and One Night in Winter and "Red Sky at Noon." His books are published in 48 languages and are worldwide bestsellers. He has won prizes in both non-fiction and fiction. He read history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, where he received his Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD).
'The Romanovs' is his latest history book. He has now completed his Moscow Trilogy of novels featuring Benya Golden and Comrade Satinov, Sashenka, Dashka and Fabiana.... and Stalin himself.

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	The Romanovs: 1613-1918 4.01 avg rating — 14,611 ratings — published 2016 — 88 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar 4.13 avg rating — 11,910 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jerusalem: The Biography 4.07 avg rating — 11,719 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Young Stalin 3.96 avg rating — 7,160 ratings — published 2007 — 87 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sashenka (Moscow Trilogy #1) 4.06 avg rating — 6,114 ratings — published 2008 — 92 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Night in Winter (Moscow Trilogy #3) 3.96 avg rating — 5,105 ratings — published 2013 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Speeches That Changed the World 3.84 avg rating — 1,579 ratings — published 2005 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red Sky at Noon (Moscow Trilogy #2) 3.93 avg rating — 1,530 ratings — published 2017 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Written in History: Letters that Changed the World 3.65 avg rating — 1,319 ratings — published 2018 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The World: A Family History of Humanity 4.01 avg rating — 999 ratings — published 2022 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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My latest novel is called One Night in Winter. It starts with the deaths of two schoolchildren in Moscow 1945 and expands into a secret police case, directed by Stalin himself, to find out what really happened to these children and their friends. It's set around the most elite school in Red Moscow. But the arrests of many children expose the hidden world of families and marriages unveiling forbidd Read more of this blog post »

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“But to her, libraries were like hotels: secret villages inhabited by passing strangers from a thousand different worlds brought together just for a few hours.”
― Simon Montefiore

tags: books, library

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“The greatest privilege of childhood is to live totally in the present.”
― Simon Sebag Montefiore, One Night in Winter

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“Power is always personal: any study of a Western democratic leader today reveals that, even in a transparent system with its short periods in office, personalities shape administrations. Democratic leaders often rule through trusted retainers instead of official ministers. In any court, power is as fluid as human personality.”
― Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Romanovs: 1613-1918

tags: aristocracy, autocracy, chronology, dynasty, history, politics, russia

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