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Maria Ignatievna von Budberg-Bönninghausen (Russian: Мария (Мура) Игнатьевна Закревская-Бенкендорф-Будберг, Maria (Moura) Ignatievna Zakrevskaya-Benckendorff-Budberg, née Zakrevskaya; February 1892 – 1 November 1974), also known as Countess von Benckendorff and Baroness von Budberg, was a Russian adventuress and suspected double agent of the Soviet Union secret police (OGPU) and the British Intelligence Service.
Apr 20, 2017 · Moura spent the following twenty years as a London institution – the infamous Baroness Budberg. She became well-known for her habit of “confiding” in people about her mysterious past. She did revisit Russia a few times in the 1960s, though she was unhappy with the changes there.
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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.
Born Maria Ignatievna Zakrevsky in Kharkov, Ukraine, in 1892, the woman who would be known throughout the European literary and artistic world as Baroness Moura Budberg grew up in tsarist Russia's gilded and doomed world of aristocratic privilege. As the youngest of three daughters born to Count Ignaty Platonovich Zakrevsky, a wealthy landowner ...
Sep 30, 2016 · Sep 30, 2016 Boban Docevski. Maria (Moura) Ignatievna Budberg was a real femme fatale in her time. She was born in 1891 in Poltava (Ukraine). Her father, Ignaty Platonovitch Zakrevsky, was a famous Russian nobleman and diplomat, as well as a high-ranking lawyer for the Tsar. In her youth, Moura had the opportunity to get acquainted with the ...
May 15, 2015 · Follow Russia Beyond on Pinterest. A thrilling new biography of baroness and double agent Moura Budberg entitled “A Very Dangerous Woman” centers on a Russo-British romance. From the moment he ...
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Jun 18, 2014 · Among the mourners at the funeral of the great Soviet writer, Maxim Gorky, in 1936 was a mysterious baroness. Moura Budberg had been Gorky's lover and, before that, the lover of a British secret ...
