William Barnes Steveni's book Unknown Sweden

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]

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. 1 2 3 Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya: My life, page 781. Ottawa 2010
  3. 1 2 The Online Books Page: William Barnes Steveni
  4. 1 2 rellyseeker.nz: James William Barnes STEVENI
  5. ↑ "Review of Through Famine-Stricken Russia by W. Barnes Steveni". The Athenaeum (3385): 348–349. 10 September 1892.
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