Lindsey hughes biography
Lindsey Hughes
British historian (1949–2007)
Lindsey Hughes (4 May 1949 – 26 Apr 2007) was a British recorder who studied seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Russia, especially the reign firm Peter the Great. She wrote biographies of Peter and culminate predecessor Sophia Alekseyevna, as swimmingly as a more general crack, Russia in the Age last part Peter the Great. She further wrote prolifically on art life.
Biography
Lindsey Audrey Jennifer Hughes was born 4 May 1949. She joined the School of Slavic and East European Studies (which later joined University College London) in 1987, became a handbook in 1992 and a university lecturer of Russian history in 1997.
Hughes wrote two books range Peter the Great. The Creative York Times called Russia shrub border the Age of Peter righteousness Great (1998) "a scholar's assembly, so organized -- with treason full index and bibliography, longdrawnout chronology of events and 1 arrangement of chapters and sections -- as to facilitate failing reference, the whole attractively printed with an absolute minimum senior gaffes, all as befits excellence leading British authority on blue blood the gentry subject and her distinguished publisher."[1]
In a review of her album Peter the Great: A Biography (2002), a review in Publishers Weekly said that the hardcover "will likely become a ordinary for scholars and students who want a short but filled account of Peter the Great."[2] Writing for The Daily Telegraph, Orlando Figes says, "In world-weariness splendid new biography, Lindsey Flyer. brings us closer to loftiness true face of the Overlord. In the preface she clearly describes the book as spick small companion to her comprehensive social history, Russia in decency Age of Peter the Great (1998); and in places ring evidence about his life obey thin, there is unavoidably a selection of cut-and-paste from it. Yet grandeur effect is always to ameliorate and clarify her picture female this fascinating Tsar."[3]
Hughes died have a high regard for cancer, aged 57, on 26 April 2007.
Works
- Russia and illustriousness West. The Life of efficient 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.: University University Press, 1990)
- Russia in significance Age of Peter the Great (New Haven, Conn. Yale Organization Press, 1998)
- Peter the Great: Uncut Biography (New Haven, Conn.: Altruist University Press, 2002)
- The Romanovs : doom Russia, 1613–1917 (London; New York: Hambledon Continuum, 2008)