Simon Sebag Montefiore
(1965-), Biographer, novelist and journalistSitter in 1 portrait
Biographer, novelist and journalist specializing in Russian History. Montefiore read history at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. During the 1990s he travelled through the former Soviet Union, working as a journalist for The Sunday Times, The New York Times, The New Republic and The Spectator. In 2000 his biography Prince of Princes: The Life of Potemkin was published and short-listed for the Samuel Johnson, Duff Cooper and Marsh Biography prizes. His widely acclaimed biography Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar was published in 2004.
by Fergus Greer
bromide fibre print, October 2004
NPG x126867
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