Leading Russian Historian to Speak at UA’s Second Annual Friends of History Lecture

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Dr. Paul Bushkovitch, one of the leading scholars of Russia in the United States, will give a public talk at the second annual Friends of History Lecture Thursday, March 22, at 4 p.m. in 205 Gorgas Library.

Bushkovitch is a history professor at Yale University and specializes in the history of Russia before the 18th century. He is the author of “The Merchants of Moscow 1580-1650,” “Religion and Society in Russia, the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries” and “Peter the Great: The Struggle for Power, 1671-1725.”

The lecture is sponsored by UA, its history department and the Friends of History Association.

The event is free and open to the public.

The UA history department is part of the College of Arts and Sciences, the University’s largest division and the largest liberal arts college in the state. Students from the college have won numerous national awards including Rhodes Scholarships, Goldwater Scholarships and memberships on the “USA Today” Academic All American Team.