Simon Montefiore

Great Lovers, Leaders, Statesmen

Simon Sebag Montefiore imagines dinner with Catherine the Great, Prince Potemkin and Stalin.

Published May 22 2007

History and Biography

Simon Sebag Montefiore considers the issues involved in writing the biography of one of history’s monsters.

Published February 17 2004

Prince Potemkin and the Benthams

Simon Sebag Montefiore describes an unlikely project to create an English village in Belorussia involving Catherine the Great’s lover and the philosopher Jeremy Bentham and his brother.

Published July 20 2003

Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran

Simon Sebag Montefiore reviews a new biography of Alexander Griboyedeov.

Published June 18 2002

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Lords of the Northern Forest

The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the central forces moulding the development of the vast tracts of land that today are Canada - but as Barry Gough explains here, the circumstances of its launch in 1670 also reveal much about the commercial forces, personalities and rivalries of Restoration England.