Global InformationJames William Barnes Steveni information
James William Barnes Steveni (born 1859[1][2][3] in Kingston upon Hull,[4] Great Britain; died 1944 in Bromsgrove,[4] 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.[2] 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.[2][3]
- ^ :Michael Skinner: What we did for the Russians, page 186ff, Lulu, Garamond 2008
- ^ a b c Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya: My life, page 781. Ottawa 2010
- ^ a b The Online Books Page: William Barnes Steveni
- ^ a b rellyseeker.nz: James William Barnes STEVENI