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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]
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