Russia: the Regalia of History
Simon Sebag Montefiore in conversation with Tripurdaman Singh

Bestselling writer and historian, Simon Sebag Montefiore is among the world’s leading experts in Russian history. His books, The Romanovs, Catherine the Great & Potemkin, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar and Young Stalin have captured its epic proportions - the rise and revolutionary fall of the Romanovs, the intimate lives of tsars and tsarinas, their ideas of empire, and changing political figures and systems of government. Montefiore has argued that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is “a gamble motivated by a desire to restore Russian glory”, a vision embedded in its sweeping past. In conversation with author and academic, Tripurdaman Singh, Montefiore examines Russia’s present ambitions through the lens of a layered history.

Simon Sebag Montefiore - is a prizewinning historian whose bestselling books have been published in more than forty-eight languages. Catherine the Great & Potemkin was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar won the History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book Awards; Young Stalin won the Costa Biography Award, Los Angeles Times Biography Prize; Jerusalem: The Biography won the Jewish Book Council’s Book of the Year Prize and the Wenjin Award from the National Library of China; The Romanovs: 1613 - 1918 won the Lupicaia del Terriccio Book Prize. Montefiore is also the author of the acclaimed Moscow Trilogy of novels Sashenka, Red Sky at Noon and One Night in Winter, which won the Political Fiction of the Year Prize.

Tripurdaman Singh - is a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, and a visiting fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies, Universiteit Leiden. He is the author of Imperial Sovereignty and Local Politics: The Bhadauria Rajputs and the Transition from Mughal to British India, 1600-1900 and Sixteen Stormy Days: The Story of the First Amendment to the Constitution of India. His latest book is Nehru: The Debates that defined India.

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