Moura Budberg
Moura Budberg | |
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Moura Budberg, by Allan Warren | |
| Born | Maria Ignatievna Zakrevskaya (Мария Игнатьевна Закревская) February 1892 |
| Died | 1 November 1974 (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 |
| Father | Ignaty Platonovich Zakrevsky |
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.
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".