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Douglas Smith is an American writer, historian and translator best known for his books about the history of Russia.

Smith was born and raised in Minnesota. After studying German and Russian at the University of Vermont, he earned a PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has also worked for the US Department of State in the Soviet Union, and as a Russia analyst for Radio Free Europe.

Smith lives in Seattle with his wife and their two children.

Bibliography

• The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. ISBN 9780374252960
• Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. ISBN 9780374240844
• Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. ISBN 9780374157616
• The Pearl: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia. Yale University Press, 2008. ISBN 9780300120417
• Love and Conquest: Personal Correspondence of Catherine the Great and Prince Grigory Potemkin. Northern Illinois University Press, 2004. ISBN 9780875803241
• Working the Rough Stone: Freemasonry and Society in Eighteenth-Century Russia. Northern Illinois University Press, 1999. ISBN 9780875802466

References

1. "Author of Rasputin, Former People, The Pearl and more - Douglas Smith".
2. "Douglas Smith - Authors - Macmillan".
3. Braithwaite, Rodric (6 November 2016). "Rasputin review – how myth and murder created a Russian legend". The Guardian.
4. Myers, Steven Lee (29 December 2016). "'Rasputin' Unravels the Myths of the 'Mad Monk'". The New York Times.
5. Treble, Patricia (19 November 2016). "How author Douglas Smith discovered the real Rasputin". Maclean's.
6. "RASPUTIN by Douglas Smith - Kirkus Reviews".
7. Dralyuk, Boris (23 November 2016). "Making a Man of the Mad Monk". Los Angeles Review of Books.
8. DeGroot, Gerard (29 October 2016). "Rasputin: Faith, Power and the Twilight of the Romanovs by Douglas Smith". The Times.
9. "Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs". Publishers Weekly.
10. Lovell, Stephen (17 February 2017). "Grigory Rasputin: full of ecstasy and fire". The Times Literary Supplement.
11. Braithwaite, Rodric (18 November 2012). "Former People: The Last Days of the Russian Aristocracy by Douglas Smith – review". The Guardian.
12. Hobson, Charlotte (10 December 2012). "Former People: The Last Days of the Russian Aristocracy by Douglas Smith: review". The Telegraph.
13. "FORMER PEOPLE by Douglas Smith - Kirkus Reviews".
14. "Former People". The New Yorker. 12 November 2012.
15. Schillinger, Liesl (2 November 2012). "Among the Ghosts of Imperial Russia". The New York Times.
16. Hastings, Max (21 October 2012). "Former People: The Last Days of the Russian Aristocracy by Douglas Smith". The Times.

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