Moura Budberg
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Countess, later Baroness, Moura (Maria Ignatievna Zakrevskaya Benckendorff) Budberg (c. 1891 - Nov. 1974) [1], was the Ukrainian-born wife of Count Djon (Johann) Benckendorff, a high-ranking Czarist diplomat. They owned the mansion called Yendel in Jäneda, Estonia. He was later shot by an Estonian peasant.
Later she was briefly married to Baron Budberg, and was at various times the mistress of Sir R. H. Bruce Lockhart, Russian writer Maxim Gorki and historian and science fiction writer H.G. Wells. She has been called the "Mata Hari of Russia",
Among her many activities, she wrote books and was the writer for at least two films: Three Sisters directed by Laurence Olivier and John Sichel (1970), and The Sea Gull directed by Sidney Lumet (1968).[1]
[edit] External links
Berberova, Nina (June 2005). Moura: The Dangerous Life of the Baroness Budberg. New York Review Books Classics. ISBN 1-59017-137-3.
Sander, Gordon. Estonia: Lost and Found (Time 1/05): Moura Budberg, H.G. Wells, and the Lost World of Yendel. Retrieved on 2006-10-23.
Tweedie, Neil; Day, Peter (November 2002). Baroness warned MI5 about Blunt in 1951. London Telegraph. Retrieved on 2006-10-23.
Budberg, Moura; Williams-Ellis, Amabel (August 1991). Russian Fairy Tales (Audio Cassette). HarperCollins Canada / Hus Kids Audio. ISBN 1-55994-399-8.
[edit] References
- ^ Filmography - Retrieved on 2006-10-23
