James William Barnes Steveni Explained

James William Barnes Steveni (born 1859^{[1] [2] [3]} in Kingston upon Hull,^[4] Great Britain; died 1944 in Bromsgrove, Great Britain) was a British journalist and author.

From 1887 he lived in Russia's capital Saint Petersburg (after 1914 named Petrograd), 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 (1892)^[5]
• The Scandinavian Question (1905)
• Things seen in Russia (1913)
• Petrograd, past and present (1914)
• The Russian army from within (1914)
• Things seen in Sweden (1915)
• How to do business with Russia; hints and advice to business men dealing with Russia (1917)
• Europe’s Great Calamity: The Russian Famine, An Appeal for the Russian Peasant (1922)
• Unknown Sweden (1925)

Sources

1. Michael Skinner: What we did for the Russians, page 186ff, Lulu, Garamond 2008

2. Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya: My life, page 781. Ottawa 2010
3. The Online Books Page: William Barnes Steveni
4. rellyseeker.nz: James William Barnes STEVENI
5. Review of Through Famine-Stricken Russia by W. Barnes Steveni. The Athenaeum. 3385. September 10, 1892. 348–349.