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.[1] 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.[2]

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 [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
• Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. ISBN 9780374157616 [11][12][13][14][15][16]
• 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

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