Sophia, Regent of Russia
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
Lindsey Hughes
The Service City: State and Townsmen in Russia, 1600-1800
by J. Michael Hittle
The 17th Century 'Renaissance' in Russia: Western Influences on Art and Architecture
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.