Nigel West, December 2010
Conducted/collated by Andrew Boyle, 1979–1980 (CUL Add 9429/2B/1-178)
Correspondence. Paul Benckendorff, Isiah Berlin, Nathalie Brooke (neé Benckendorff), Michael Burn, Kira Clegg, Tony Cliff, Lady Diana Cooper, Alastair Forbes, Martha Gellhorn, Martin Gilbert, Harman Grisewood, Robert Keyserlingk, Marina Majdalany, Nigel Nicolson, Sir Michael Postan, Lord Ritchie Calder, Alexis Scherbatow, Count Nikolai Tolstoy, Feliks Topolski, Lord Vaizey, Alan Walker, Rebecca West, Ted Willis.
Interviews. Enid Bagnold, Baron Robert Boothby, Nathalie Brooke (neé Benckendorff), Michael Burn, Tony Cliff, Lady Diana Cooper, Hamish and Yvonne Hamilton, Sir Rupert Hart-Davis, Sir John Lawrence, Marina Majdalany, Malcolm Muggeridge, Sir Michael and Lady Postan, Lord Ritchie Calder, Kyril Zinovieff.
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Illustrations
1. The Russi
an Orthodox Church, Ennismore Gardens, the principal church for Russian émigrés in London.
2. Berezova Rudka, (formerly Beriozovaya Rudka), Ukraine, the country seat of the Zakrevsky family, where Moura spent much of her childhood.
3. Moura with her husband Djon von Benckendorff, at the Berlin races, 1913.
4. Meriel Buchanan during her time as a nurse at the war hospital in Petrograd. c. 1916.
5. The Red House, Yendel (now known as Jäneda Manor). Built by Djon von Benckendorff in 1910–15 based on William Morris’s Red House at Bexleyheath, London.
6. Second Lieutenant (later Captain) Denis Garstin c. 1915.
7. Captain Francis Cromie c. 1918.
8. Cromie enjoys a sleigh ride with Moura (left) and Baroness Fairy Schilling.
9. Moura with Captain Fenner, Captain Cromie and Meriel Buchanan, skiing in Estonia.
10. Kallijärv, the lakeside house on the Yendel estate in which Moura’s family lived from 1918.
11. Felix Dzerzhinsky, September 1918.
12. Yakov Peters.
13. H. G. Wells, Maxim Gorky and Moura, 1920.
14. Robert H. Bruce Lockhart aged about twenty-two.
15. H. G. Wells by George Charles Beresford, 1920.
16. Moura around the time she moved to Britain.
17. Timosha (Maxim Gorky’s daughter-in-law), Yekaterina (his legal wife) and Moura in Sorrento, 1925.
18. Moura and her family at Kallijärv, 1930. Back row from left: Hermann von Benckendorff, R. Knupffer, Hans-Ernst von Maydell. Moura, Tania, Micky, Ilse von Hoyningen-Huene, Kira, Sophie Benckendorff, Alexander Benckendorff, Paul. Front Row: Mitja von Stackelberg, Marina von Stackelberg, Alexandra Benckendorff, Natalie Benckendorff.
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