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Simon Sebag Montefiore


Looter in Chief

How did a nearly 20-year-old, widely acclaimed biography of Catherine the Great and Potemkin become a maniacal road map for President Putin?

Jackie’s Russian Collusion

A letter from Jacqueline Kennedy to Nikita Khrushchev was among the last she’d send from the White House

A Room of Their Own

A 1920s note from Vita to Virginia is an exercise in reassuring a lover

Eternity’s Gate

The love letter that made it out of Auschwitz intact