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Apr 20, 2017 · Moura Budberg. Source. In 1945 the war ended, and in 1946 Moura’s long-running affair with HG Wells ended when he died, at the age of eighty. Moura’s application for British citizenship finally went through, and her influence and connections meant that despite the security issues on her record it was approved.
Moura Budberg was born in Poltava, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]. She was a writer and actress, known for The Sea Gull (1968), Three Sisters (1970) and Romanoff and Juliet (1961). She was previously married to Johann von Benckendorff and Nikolai Baron von Budberg.
Moura Budberg (1892–1974) had an extraordinary life. She was born in the Poltava region of Ukraine, and as a young woman she danced at the Sanssouci Palace at Potsdam with the Russian Tsar and ...
Apr 10, 2005 · She brings to life not only the unknowable Baroness Budberg—probable spy, sometime translator and film scenarist—but her unlikely trio of lovers—the British agent Bruce Lockhart, Maxim Gorky and H.G. Wells.” —Honor Moore, author of The White Blackbird “Although Moura’s life provides the thread of this biography, Berberova enriches the story with pen portraits of revolutionaries, spies, international financiers and what seem like half the characters from an Eric Ambler thriller.”
- Nina Berberova
Jun 9, 2015 · [1] Moura Budberg, Preface to Gorky, Fragments, p. ix. Jeremy Dronfield is a biographer and novelist. His books include the novels The Locust Farm and The Alchemist’s Apprentice , and most recently, Beyond the Call , the true story of a US pilot’s secret rescue mission on the Eastern Front in World War II, written for the son of the book’s hero.
Books. Moura: The Dangerous Life of the Baroness Budberg. Baroness Maria Ignatievna Zakrevskaya Benckendorff Budberg hailed from the Russian aristocracy and lived in the lap of luxury—until the Bolshevik Revolution forced her to live by her wits. Thereafter her existence was a story of connivance and stratagem, a succession of unlikely twists ...
May 18, 2015 · From the moment he is introduced into Moura Budberg’s magnetic story, British agent Robert Lockhart is a romantic figure. He sounds like an early James Bond: “an adventurer in the Victorian ...
