Table of Contents
Map vii
Descendants of Ignatiy Zakrevsky viii
Illustration Credits ix
Preface xi
Prologue 1
Part 1 Flouting All Conventions: 1916-1918
1 The Eve of Revolution 5
2 Choosing Sides 17
3 Red Winter 34
4 The British Agent 41
5 'What Children We Were' 53
6 Passion and Intrigue 65
7 Old Enemies, Strange Alliances 79
8 A Hair's Breadth from War 92
9 Across the Border 103
Part 2 Love and Survival: 1918-1919
10 The Lockhart Plot 117
11 The Knock on the Door in the Night 132
12 Sacrificial Offering 143
13 The End of Everything… 160
14 Se Metrre en Quatre 169
Part 3 In Exile: 1919-1924
15 'We're All Iron Now' 185
16 Baroness Budberg 202
17 One Perfect Thing 216
Part 4 England: 1924-1946
18 Love and Anger 227
19 Not Such a Fool 244
20 A Cheat and a Liar 260
21 The Mysterious Death of Maxim Gorky 270
22 A Very Dangerous Woman 281
23 'Secretly Working for the Russians' 290
Part 5 Moura's Salon: 1946-1974
24 The Movie Mogul 305
25 A Russian Patriot 315
26 … The End of Everything 327
Notes 341
Bibliography 384
Index 393