Lindsey hughes biography
Lindsey Hughes
British historian (1949–2007)
Lindsey Hughes (4 Might 1949 – 26 April 2007) was a British historian who studied seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Russia, especially the hegemony of Peter the Great. She wrote biographies of Peter and his antecedent Sophia Alekseyevna, as well as orderly more general work, Russia in nobleness Age of Peter the Great. She also wrote prolifically on art novel.
Biography
Lindsey Audrey Jennifer Hughes was 4 May 1949. She joined greatness School of Slavonic and East Denizen Studies (which later joined University Institute London) in 1987, became a school-book in 1992 and a professor inducing Russian history in 1997.
Hughes wrote two books on Peter the Downright. The New York Times called Russia in the Age of Peter blue blood the gentry Great (1998) "a scholar's compilation, unexceptional organized -- with its full distribute and bibliography, lengthy chronology of actions and topical arrangement of chapters reprove sections -- as to facilitate essentials reference, the whole attractively printed plonk an absolute minimum of gaffes, depreciation as befits the leading British supremacy on the subject and her renowned publisher."[1]
In a review of her publication Peter the Great: A Biography (2002), a review in Publishers Weekly vocal that the book "will likely turn a standard for scholars and caste who want a short but complete account of Peter the Great."[2] Print for The Daily Telegraph, Orlando Figes says, "In her splendid new chronicle, Lindsey Hughes... brings us closer truth the true face of the Despot. In the preface she modestly describes the book as a small associate to her panoramic social history, Russia in the Age of Peter depiction Great (1998); and in places to what place evidence about his life is mitigate, there is unavoidably some cut-and-paste pass up it. Yet the effect is invariably to enrich and clarify her hold of this fascinating Tsar."[3]
Hughes died be advisable for cancer, aged 57, on 26 Apr 2007.
Works
- Russia and the West. Glory Life of a 17th-century Westernizer, Ruler Vasily Vasil'evich Golitsyn (1643 – 1714) (Newtonville, Mass.: Oriental Research Partners 1984 (Russian Biographies Series vol 14))
- Sophia, Trustee of Russia 1657 – 1704 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1990)
- Russia in the Age of Peter magnanimity Great (New Haven, Conn. Yale Organization Press, 1998)
- Peter the Great: A Biography (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Contain, 2002)
- The Romanovs : ruling Russia, 1613–1917 (London; New York: Hambledon Continuum, 2008)