The spy who loved me: New biography on Moura Budberg
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 mould … a Scotsman … a man of daring, acute intelligence, charisma, skilled equally with a pen or a revolver.” In the giddy aftermath of the Russian revolution, Budberg and Lockhart, two mysteriously compelling characters and both married to other people, fell in love with each other.
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