James William Barnes Steveni

James William Barnes Steveni was a British journalist and author.
From 1887 he lived in Russia's capital Saint Petersburg, where he taught English language and met Leo Tolstoy, for example. As a correspondent for the London Daily Chronicle in Petersburg between 1892 and 1917 he authored a number of books, essays and articles about political, military, social, cultural, ethnological and historical aspects of Russia's situation on the eve of the First World War and the Russian Revolution.

Publications

Through Famine-Stricken Russia The Scandinavian Question Things seen in Russia Petrograd, past and present The Russian army from within Things seen in Sweden How to do business with Russia; hints and advice to business men dealing with Russia Europe’s Great Calamity: The Russian Famine, An Appeal for the Russian Peasant

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