James William Barnes Steveni (born 1859:Michael Skinner: ''What we did for the Russians'', page 186ff, Lulu, Garamond 2008Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya: ''My life'', page 781. Ottawa 2010The Online Books Page:
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Kingston upon Hull Kingston upon Hull, usually abbreviated to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies upon the River Hull at its confluence with the Humber Estuary, inland from the North Sea and south-east ...

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Great Britain Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world. It is ...

; died 1944 in

Bromsgrove Bromsgrove is a town in Worcestershire, England, about northeast of Worcester and southwest of Birmingham city centre. It had a population of 29,237 in 2001 (39,644 in the wider Bromsgrove/Catshill urban area). Bromsgrove is the main town in the ...

, Great Britain) was a British journalist and author. From 1887 he lived in Russia's capital

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

(after 1914 named ''Petrograd''), where he taught English language and met

Leo Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-refor ...

, 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 World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

and the

Russian Revolution The Russian Revolution was a period of Political revolution (Trotskyism), political and social revolution that took place in the former Russian Empire which began during the First World War. This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and ad ...

Publications

* ''Through Famine-Stricken Russia'' (1892) * ''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)

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