The Mysterious Life and Loves of a Russian Baroness

Witness History: Archive 2014 - Een podcast door BBC World Service

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Among the mourners at the funeral of the great Soviet writer, Maxim Gorky, in 1936 was a mysterious baroness. Moura Budberg had been Gorky's lover and, before that, the lover of a British secret agent who'd been thrown into a Soviet jail. Her extraordinary life led some to call her the Russian Mata Hari. But was she really a spy?(Photo: Baroness Moura Budberg. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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