A Very Dangerous Woman: The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia's Most Seductive Spy (73 page)
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Authors: Deborah McDonald,Jeremy Dronfield
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| 18 | Alexander, Estonian Childhood , pp. 71–2. |
| 19 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, 6 Jan. 1923, HIA. When Lockhart was writing his memoirs in the 1930s, she made him remove all reference to Budberg, protesting that she could never have ‘married a man in order to get some facility’ (Moura, letter to Lockhart, LL. Undated: probably 1933). When he wrote an essay in which he again referred to her marriage of convenience, she crossed it out, put angry exclamation marks in the margin, and emended the passage to say that ‘after her return to Estonia she married Baron Budberg, an old friend of the family’ (Lockhart, ‘Baroness Budberg’, unpublished draft, HIA). |
| 20 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, 24 Jun. 1921, HIA. |
| 21 | Moura, letter to Gorky, May 1921, quoted in Vaksberg, The Murder of Maxim Gorky , p. 104. ‘Kobelyak’ was a contemporary spelling; it is now ‘Kobeliaky’. |
| 22 | Moura, letters to Gorky, Jun.–Aug. 1921, GA. |
| 23 | Gorky, letter quoted in Alexander, Estonian Childhood , p. 72. |
| 24 | Alexander, Estonian Childhood , pp. 72–3. |
| 25 | Gorky, letter to Lenin, 22 Nov. 1921, quoted in Vaksberg, The Murder of Maxim Gorky , p. 141. |
| 26 | Moura, letter to Gorky, 1921, quoted in Vaksberg, The Murder of Maxim Gorky , p. 148. |
| 27 | Gorky, letter to Lenin, 25 Dec. 1921, quoted in Vaksberg, The Murder of Maxim Gorky , p. 144. |
| 28 | Vaksberg, The Murder of Maxim Gorky , p. 150. |
| 29 | Berberova, Moura , p. 166. |
| 30 | Moura Budberg MI5 file, note added 15 May 1922. Meiklejohn is identified as the Tallinn station chief in Jeffery, MI6 , p. 184. |
| 31 | Moura, letter to Wells, 28 Jul. 1922, RBML. |
| 32 | Now 15 Karl-Marx-Damm. |
| 33 | Khodasevich, ‘Gorky’, pp. 231–2. |
| 34 | Khodasevich, ‘Gorky’, pp. 231–2. |
| 35 | Khodasevich, ‘Gorky’, pp. 231–2. |
| 36 | Moura, Preface to Gorky, Fragments , p. vii. |
| 37 | Moura, Preface to Gorky, Fragments , p. ix. |
| 38 | Moura, Preface to Gorky, Fragments , pp. ix–x. |
| 39 | Berberova, The Italics are Mine , pp. 178–9. |
| 40 | Moura, letter to Wells, 11 Oct. 1923, RBML. |
| 41 | Moura, letters to Wells, 1923, RBML. |
| 42 | Moura, letter to Wells, 26 Jan. 1923, RBML. |
| 43 | Moura, letter to Wells, 11 Oct. 1923, RBML. The Hôtel Hermitage on the Côte d’Azur was occasionally used by Wells. |
| 44 | Lockhart, diary entry for 22 May 1919, Diaries vol. 1 , p. 53. |
| 45 | Wells, H. G. Wells in Love , p. 104. |
Chapter 17: One Perfect Thing
| 1 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, 6 Jan. 1923, HIA. |
| 2 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, 6 Jan. 1923, HIA. |
| 3 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, 6 Jan. 1923, HIA. |
| 4 | Moura Budberg MI5 file, 31 Jul. 1923, SIS Section 1B. |
| 5 | Moura, letter to Gorky, 7 Aug. 1923, GA. |
| 6 | Moura, letters to Gorky, 4–29 Aug. 1923, GA. |
| 7 | Moura, letter to Wells, 10 Feb. 1924. |
| 8 | Khodasevich, ‘Gorky’, pp. 234–5. |
| 9 | Vaksberg, The Murder of Maxim Gorky , p. 173. |
| 10 | Khodasevich, ‘Gorky’, pp. 236–7. |
| 11 | Kathleen Tynan, interview with Moura Budberg, Vogue (US), 1 Oct. 1970, p. 210. This tale might be one of the many Moura invented or elaborated. But it was certainly true that Gorky and Moura were subjected to surveillance. |
| 12 | Editor’s note in Lockhart, Diaries vol. 1 , p. 55. |
| 13 | Lockhart, diary entry, 30 Jul. 1923, Diaries vol. 1 , pp. 56–7. |
| 14 | Lockhart, Retreat from Glory , pp. 232–3. |
| 15 | Lockhart, Retreat from Glory , p. 233. |
| 16 | Lockhart, Retreat from Glory , p. 233; unpublished diary entry for 29 Jul. 1918. Oddly, Lockhart (who wrote his memoirs from his diaries) gives the date of Moura’s call from Vienna and recalls the earlier incident, but doesn’t comment on the coincidence of the dates. |
| 17 | Lockhart, Retreat from Glory , p. 234. |
| 18 | Lockhart, Retreat from Glory , p. 234. Lockhart compresses the timescale, saying that he went ‘the next night’, but this is contradicted by his diary for 2–4 Aug. 1924 ( Diaries vol. 1 , pp. 58–9). |
| 19 | Lockhart, Retreat from Glory , p. 235. |
| 20 | Lockhart, diary entry, 2–4 Aug. 1924, Diaries vol. 1 , p. 58. |
| 21 | Lockhart, Retreat from Glory , p. 237. |
| 22 | Lockhart, Retreat from Glory , p. 237. |
Chapter 18: Love and Anger
| 1 | Wells, H. G. Wells in Love , pp. 167–8. |
| 2 | Lockhart, Retreat from Glory , p. 238. |
| 3 | Lockhart, Retreat from Glory , p. 240. |
| 4 | Lockhart, diary entry, 2–4 Aug. 1924, Diaries vol. 1 , p. 58. |
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