Lindsey A.J. Hughes
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Catherine the Great wrote of Sophia Alekseevna, the first woman to effectively rule Russia, '... we cannot but own, that she was very capable of governing.'An article by Lindsey A.J. Hughes Published June 30 1982
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by J. Michael Hittle
Published August 31 1980
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According to Lindsey A.J. Hughes, Peter the Great's programme of Westernisation was neither as unheralded nor such a break with the past as has sometimes been suggested. Published February 1 1980
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