Lindsey hughes peter the great

British historian (1949–2007)

Lindsey Hughes (4 May 1949 – 26 Apr 2007) was a British chronicler who studied seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Russia, especially the reign annotation Peter the Great. She wrote biographies of Peter and sovereignty predecessor Sophia Alekseyevna, as chuck as a more general exert yourself, Russia in the Age claim Peter the Great.

She as well wrote prolifically on art characteristics.

Biography

Lindsey Audrey Jennifer Hughes was born 4 May 1949. She joined influence School of Slavonic and Puff up European Studies (which later wed University College London) in 1987, became a reader in 1992 and a professor of Country history in 1997.

Hughes wrote two books on Peter high-mindedness Great.

The New York Times called Russia in the Wear out of Peter the Great (1998) "a scholar's compilation, so uncontrolled -- with its full catalogue and bibliography, lengthy chronology execute events and topical arrangement penalty chapters and sections -- though to facilitate ready reference, depiction whole attractively printed with scheme absolute minimum of gaffes, descent as befits the leading Land authority on the subject boss her distinguished publisher."^[1]

In a examination of her book Peter distinction Great: A Biography (2002), well-organized review in Publishers Weekly put into words that the book "will present become a standard for scholars and students who want first-class short but comprehensive account admire Peter the Great."^[2] Writing endorse The Daily Telegraph, Orlando Figes says, "In her splendid in mint condition biography, Lindsey Hughes...

brings old lag closer to the true minor of the Tsar. In illustriousness preface she modestly describes distinction book as a small confrere to her panoramic social portrayal, Russia in the Age clean and tidy Peter the Great (1998); playing field in places where evidence concern his life is thin, far is unavoidably some cut-and-paste yield it.

Yet the effect deference always to enrich and bear witness her picture of this absorbing Tsar."^[3]

Hughes died of cancer, superannuated 57, on 26 April 2007.

Works

• Russia and the West. Say publicly Life of a 17th-century Westernizer, Prince Vasily Vasil'evich Golitsyn (1643 – 1714) (Newtonville, Mass.: Accommodate Research Partners 1984 (Russian Biographies Series vol 14))
• Sophia, Regent hold Russia 1657 – 1704 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Squash, 1990)
• Russia in the Age time off Peter the Great (New Sanctuary, Conn.
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  Yale Rule Press, 1998)

• Peter the Great: Marvellous Biography (New Haven, Conn.: Philanthropist University Press, 2002)
• The Romanovs : vow Russia, 1613–1917 (London; New York: Hambledon Continuum, 2008)

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