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In January 1918, the British adventurer, diplomat, and secret agent Robert Bruce Lockhart arrived in Revolutionary Russia. His official mission: Britains envoy to the new Bolshevik government. His true mission: to create a network of agents, plot the assassination of Lenin, and overthrow the Bolsheviks. A dashing charmer, he soon got to know the aristocratic socialite, hedonist, and notorious seductress Moura Zakrevskaya. The two fell in love and began a passionate affair. But what Lockhart didnt know was that Moura was spying on him for the Bolsheviks. What Moura didnt know was that, as Lockharts plot unraveled and he was seized, she would sell herself to save him from the firing squad. Fleeing to England, Moura discovered a life of exile, a string of new lovers including Maxim Gorky and H. G. Wells and playing off the Russian and British governments as she spied for both. Through all this she clung to the hope that Lockhart would finally be able to return to her. Deborah McDonalds sensational retelling of Mouras extraordinary life opens up a world of revolution and espionage where survival means sacrificing more than just love and loyalty.

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Bibliography

AAK Alfred A. Knopf Records

CUL Cambridge University Library

GA Gorky Archive

HIA Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, California.

LL Lilly Library, Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana

RBML Rare Book & Manuscript Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

Archives and unpublished materials

Budberg, Moura (aka Benckendorff, Zakrevskaya), letters to R. H. Bruce Lockhart. R B Lockhart mss, Boxes 2 and 5: Correspondence of Moura Budberg and R. H. Bruce Lockhart, LL.

Budberg, Moura (aka Benckendorff, Zakrevskaya), letters to R. H. Bruce Lockhart. Robert H. B. Lockhart papers, Box 1: Correspondence of Moura Budberg, HIA.

Budberg, Moura (aka Benckendorff, Zakrevskaya) and others, letters to H. G. Wells. Correspondence of H. G. Wells, RBML.

Gorky Archive: Letters between Moura Budberg and Maxim Gorky. Russian state archives, translations and notes via Professor Barry P. Scherr.

Knopf, Mrs A., letters to Baroness Moura Budberg, Alfred A. Knopf Records, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.

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MI5 file on Moura Budberg, 19221952. KV2/979, KV2/980, KV2/981, National Archives, Kew.

Interviews and correspondence

Conducted by Deborah McDonald, 20102012

Nathalie Brooke (ne Benckendorff), 16 May 2012

Miranda Carter, 13 January 2012

Philip Day, 13 January 2012

Michael Korda, 12 January 2012

Jamie Bruce Lockhart, 1 February 2012

Andrea Lynn, December 2010

Professor Barry P. Scherr, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, January 2012

Teresa Topolski, 1 April 2012

Karen Vaughan, Royal Academy of Music (pupil of Maria Korchinska, wife of Count Constantine Benckendorff), 13 May 2012

Lord George Weidenfeld, 6 January 2012

Nigel West, December 2010

Conducted/collated by Andrew Boyle, 19791980 (CUL Add 9429/2B/1-178)

Correspondence. Paul Benckendorff, Isiah Berlin, Nathalie Brooke (ne Benckendorff), Michael Burn, Kira Clegg, Tony Cliff, Lady Diana Cooper, Alastair Forbes, Martha Gellhorn, Martin Gilbert, Harman Grisewood, Robert Keyserlingk, Marina Majdalany, Nigel Nicolson, Sir Michael Postan, Lord Ritchie Calder, Alexis Scherbatow, Count Nikolai Tolstoy, Feliks Topolski, Lord Vaizey, Alan Walker, Rebecca West, Ted Willis.

Interviews . Enid Bagnold, Baron Robert Boothby, Nathalie Brooke (ne Benckendorff), Michael Burn, Tony Cliff, Lady Diana Cooper, Hamish and Yvonne Hamilton, Sir Rupert Hart-Davis, Sir John Lawrence, Marina Majdalany, Malcolm Muggeridge, Sir Michael and Lady Postan, Lord Ritchie Calder, Kyril Zinovieff.

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