Politics and culture in eighteenth-century Russia

Isabel de Madariaga is professor emeritus of Slavonic Studies at the University of London. Isabel Margaret de Madariaga was born in Glasgow, Scotland on August 27, 1919. As a result of her father's career as a Spanish diplomat, she was educated in France and Switzerland, and then in Britain, where the family settled in 1936. She received show more first-class honours from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), where she was its first female undergraduate. During World War II, she monitored enemy broadcasts. She completed a Ph.D. on Anglo-Russian relations during the American War of Independence (1775-83), which was published in 1962 as Britain, Russia and the Armed Neutrality of 1780. She taught at several universities including Sussex, Lancaster, and the SSEES. As a Russian historian, she wrote several books including Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great, Catherine the Great, and Ivan the Terrible. She was made a fellow of the British Academy in 1990 and the Royal Spanish Academy of History in 1991. She died on June 16, 2014 at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) show less