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Budberg was widely suspected of being a double agent for both the Soviet Union and British intelligence and has been called the "Mata Hari of Russia", after the famous Dutch exotic dancer and accused spy.
Moura Budberg's world collapsed in 1917, when two revolutions first swept aside the corrupt Romanov Dynasty and then placed the Bolsheviks under V.I. Lenin in power as head of a radical proletarian state dedicated to the ideal of world revolution.
15 de mai. de 2015 · A thrilling new biography of baroness and double agent Moura Budberg entitled “A Very Dangerous Woman” centers on a Russo-British romance.
- Phoebe Taplin
Thus, H.G. Wells, the famed 20th century writer, fantasist and futurist, perhaps best known for War of the Worlds, described his fateful 1934 reunion in Estonia with his elusive “shadow lover,” the celebrated Moura Budberg, before they entrained for her murdered husband’s storied estate, Yendel, now the site of the Janeda museum and ...
30 de set. de 2016 · Baroness Moura Budberg in her apartment in London. Photo credit Besides being a double spy and a leading a tumultuos romantic life, it turns out that Moura was also a prolific writer.
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 married to Johann von Benckendorff and Nikolai Baron von Budberg. She died in November 1974 in Italy.
Maria Ignatievna von Budberg-Bönninghausen, 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.
