Lindsey Audrey Jennifer Hughes (4 May 1949 – 26 April 2007) was a British

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who studied seventeenth- and eighteenth-century

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, especially the reign of

Peter the Great Peter I (, ; – ), better known as Peter the Great, was the Sovereign, Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia, Tsar of all Russia from 1682 and the first Emperor of Russia, Emperor of all Russia from 1721 until his death in 1725. He reigned j ...

. She wrote biographies of Peter and his predecessor

Sophia Alekseyevna Sophia Alekseyevna ( rus, Со́фья Алексе́евна, p=ˈsofʲjə ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvnə; ) was a Russian princess who ruled as regent of Russia from 1682 to 1689. She allied herself with a singularly capable courtier and politician, Pri ...

, as well as a more general work, ''Russia in the Age of Peter the Great''. She also wrote prolifically on

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Biography

Lindsey Hughes was born 4 May 1949. She joined the

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(which later joined

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) in 1987, became a reader in 1992 and a professor of

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in 1997. Hughes wrote two books on

. ''

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'' called ''Russia in the Age of Peter the Great'' (1998) "a scholar's compilation, so organized -- with its full index and bibliography, lengthy chronology of events and topical arrangement of chapters and sections -- as to facilitate ready reference, the whole attractively printed with an absolute minimum of gaffes, all as befits the leading British authority on the subject and her distinguished publisher." In a review of her book ''Peter the Great: A Biography'' (2002), a review in ''

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'' said that the book "will likely become a standard for scholars and students who want a short but comprehensive account of Peter the Great." Writing for ''

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'',

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says, "In her splendid new biography, Lindsey Hughes... brings us closer to the true face of the Tsar. In the preface she modestly describes the book as a small companion to her panoramic social history, ''Russia in the Age of Peter the Great'' (1998); and in places where evidence about his life is thin, there is unavoidably some cut-and-paste from it. Yet the effect is always to enrich and clarify her picture of this fascinating Tsar." Hughes died of

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, aged 57, on 26 April 2007.

Works

* ''Russia and the West. The Life of a 17th-century Westernizer, Prince Vasily Vasil'evich Golitsyn (1643 – 1714)'' ( Newtonville, Mass.: Oriental Research Partners 1984 (Russian Biographies Series vol 14)) * ''Sophia, Regent of Russia 1657 – 1704'' ( New Haven, Conn.:

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Press, 1990) * ''Russia in the Age of Peter the Great'' (New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press, 1998) * ''Peter the Great: A Biography'' (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2002) * ''The Romanovs : ruling Russia, 1613–1917'' (London; New York: Hambledon Continuum, 2008)

References

External links

Obituary
from ''

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'', 10 May 2007 * * 1949 births 2007 deaths Academics of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies Alumni of the University of Sussex Alumni of Darwin College, Cambridge Historians of Russia Deaths from cancer in England 20th-century British historians {{UK-historian-stub