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Moura Budberg
Russian adventuress (1892–1974) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Ignatievna and the family name is Budberg.
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.[1]
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Born | Maria Ignatievna Zakrevskaya (Мария Игнатьевна Закревская) February 1892 |
Died | 1 November 1974(1974-11-01) (aged 82) |
Nationality | Russian Empire |
Occupation(s) | secretary, screenwriter |
Spouses | Ivan Alexandrovich, Count von Benckendorff
(m. 1911; died 1919) |
Partner(s) | R. H. Bruce Lockhart Maxim Gorky H. G. Wells |
Children | 2 |
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According to the British journalist Robin Bruce Lockhart, who knew her personally, "she was, perhaps, the Soviet Union's most effective agent-of-influence ever to appear on London's political and intellectual stage".[2]