The Romanovs 1613-1918 SIGNED, FIRST EDITION

SEBAG-MONTEFIORE Simon

Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2016.

Signed, First Edition, First Printing: Near Fine, UNread. Small marks on block. which remains tight. Synopsis
A new history of the Romanovs, the most successful dynasty of modern times, who conquered vast territories until they ruled a 6th of the world's surface. This is the intimate story of 20 tsars and tsarinas, told by the author of }Young Stalin, Stalin: The Court Of The Red Tsar{ and }Jerusalem{. A sweeping history of modern Russia, from Ivan the Terrible to Lenin, via Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Rasputin, Nicholas and Alexandra

About the Author
Simon Sebag Montefiore is an internationally bestselling author and historian whose prize-winning books have been published in forty-eight languages. Catherine the Great and Potemkin was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar won the British Book Awards History Book of the Year Prize. Young Stalin won the Costa Biography Award (UK), the LA Times Book Prize for Biography (USA), the Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique (France), and the Kreisky Prize (Austria). Jerusalem: The Biography - A History of the Middle East was a number one Sunday Times (UK) bestseller, a global bestseller and won The Book of the Year Prize from the Jewish Book Council (US) and the Wenjin Book Prize of the National Library of China (People's Republic of China). The Romanovs: 1613-1918 won the Lupicaia del Terriccio Book Prize (Italy); and The World: A Family History, a NYTimes and Sunday Times bestseller, was named The Times History Book of the Year. In 2025, he was awarded the Blue Metropolis Words to Change Prize (Canada) for "his body of work in humanity and history.' He is also the author of the Moscow Trilogy of novels: Sashenka, Red Sky at Noon and One Night in Winter, which won the Paddy Power Political Novel of the Year Prize. He read history at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University where he received his PhD. He is the presenter of five history series for the BBC and many of his books are being developed for movies or drama series.