Simon Sebag Montefiore

Simon Sebag Montefiore is a British historian and novelist. Montefiore’s initial career as a foreign affairs journalist meant that he was reporting from the Soviet Union just as Communism began to collapse. The majority of his books are centred on Russia - from his first historical work Catherine the Great and Potemkin to a landmark biography of the Romanovs and authoritative accounts of the life of Stalin - yet his most critically lauded and successful book, Jerusalem: The Biography, steps out of the confines of the Soviet bloc. In addition to his non-fiction work Montefiore has also written a trilogy of novels set in Moscow during the first half of the twentieth century, and a series of children’s books co-authored with his novelist wife, Santa, called The Royal Rabbits of London.