A Very Dangerous Woman: The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia's Most Seductive Spy (70 page)
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| 42 | Lockhart, diary entry for 1 Oct. 1918, Diaries vol. 1 , p. 46. |
| 43 | Lockhart, British Agent , pp. 344–5. |
| 44 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, LL. Marked ‘Thursday’: certainly 3 Oct. 1918. |
| 45 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, LL. Marked ‘Thursday’: certainly 3 Oct. 1918. |
Chapter 13: The End of Everything
| 1 | Gen. Finlayson, quoted in De Ruvigny, ‘Garstin, Denys Norman’, p. 66. |
| 2 | Garstin, letter, 6 Jun. 1918, reproduced in Walpole, ‘Denis Garstin’, p. 605. |
| 3 | Hugh Walpole, preface, in Denis Garstin, The Shilling Soldiers , p. xi. |
| 4 | Garstin, letter, 6 Jun. 1918, reproduced in Walpole, ‘Denis Garstin’, p. 605. |
| 5 | Moura, letter to Meriel Buchanan, 13 Oct. 1918, LL. |
| 6 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, LL. Undated: probably 10 Oct. 1918. |
| 7 | Moura, letter to Meriel Buchanan, 13 Oct. 1918, LL. Moura must presumably have left Garry with her mother while she was away with Lockhart in Moscow. |
| 8 | Moura, letters to Lockhart, 14 Nov. and 2 Dec. 1918, LL. |
| 9 | Cross, ‘A Corner of a Foreign Field’, pp. 352–4; Buchanan, Victorian Gallery , pp. 103–45. |
| 10 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, LL. Undated: probably 10 Oct. 1918. |
| 11 | R. L. Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque , I. |
| 12 | R. L. Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque , ‘Crabbed Age and Youth’. |
| 13 | R. L. Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque , III: ‘Falling in Love’. |
| 14 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, LL. Undated: probably 10 Oct. 1918. |
| 15 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, 2 Dec. 1918, LL. |
| 16 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, 28 Oct. 1918, LL. |
| 17 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, HIA. Undated, written on American Red Cross paper; probably 10–15 Oct. 1918. |
| 18 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, 24 Jan. 1919, LL. |
| 19 | Lockhart, Retreat from Glory , p. 11. It is not impossible that Moura’s illness was also Spanish flu, and that she passed it to Lockart, but this is unlikely given the time lapse between their contact and Lockhart succumbing. More likely he picked up the infection during his travels. Moura’s illness was possibly an infection connected with her miscarriage. |
| 20 | Lockhart, Retreat from Glory , p. 6. |
| 21 | Lockhart, Retreat from Glory , pp. 5–6. |
| 22 | Lockhart, Retreat from Glory , p. 43. |
| 23 | Lockhart, diary entry for 14 Nov. 1918, Diaries vol. 1 , p. 48. |
| 24 | Lockhart, diary entry for 16 Nov. 1918, Diaries vol. 1 , p. 48. |
| 25 | Lockhart, diary entry for 23 Nov. 1918, Diaries vol. 1 , p. 51. |
| 26 | The Tribunal and sentences were reported in Izvestia on 25 Nov. and 10 Dec. 1918 (cited in Long, ‘Searching for Sidney Reilly’, p. 1234). Col. Aleksandr Fride was sentenced to death by the same court, and was shot. |
| 27 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, HIA. Undated: probably 13 Oct. 1918. |
| 28 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, LL. Undated: probably 4 Oct. 1918. |
| 29 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, 24 Jan. 1919, LL. |
| 30 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, 31 Oct. 1918, LL. |
| 31 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, 16 Dec. 1918, LL. |
Chapter 14: Se Mettre en Quatre
| 1 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, 26–28 Dec. 1918, LL. |
| 2 | Moura, letters to Lockhart, Feb. 1919, HIA and LL. See also reports on conditions in Russia in 1919 in Foreign Office, White Paper on Russia , pp. 30ff. Wages had been set by decree in July 1918; inflation had raised them to ten times their pre-war rates, but prices outstripped them, especially for rare commodities like tea, butter and firewood. |
| 3 | Moura, letters to Lockhart, 26–28 Dec. 1918 and 18 Feb. 1919, LL. |
| 4 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, 26–28 Dec. 1918, LL. |
| 5 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, LL. Undated: probably 13 Oct. 1918. |
| 6 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, 14 Feb. 1919, HIA. |
| 7 | According to a letter from Moura to Lockhart (LL, undated: probably 1933), Chukovsky had been an interpreter for Thornhill on the Archangel front. If so, he presumably set no store by the negative opinions of Moura she believed Thornhill propagated. Chukovsky later achieved fame in Russia as a children’s author. |
| 8 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, 26–28 Dec. 1918, LL. |
| 9 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, 18 Feb. 1919, LL. The reference is to Gabriele D’Annunzio, the Italian writer and political idealist. |
| 10 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, 26–28 Dec. 1918, LL. |
| 11 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, 1 Jan. 1919, LL. John Gibson Lockhart (1794–1854) wrote his Life of Walter Scott in 1837–8 and was married to Scott’s daughter; he was not related to Robert Bruce Lockhart, though Moura might well have believed he was. A rough calculation indicates that to earn the same as a skilled workman (between 500 and 1,000 roubles per month), Moura must have had to translate about eight to twenty pages a day. |
| 12 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, 4 Jan. 1919, LL. |
| 13 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, 4 Jan. 1919, LL. |
| 14 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, 5 Jan. 1919, LL. |
| 15 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, 24 Jan. 1919, LL. |
| 16 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, 18 Feb. 1919, LL. |
| 17 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, 25 Jan. 1919, HIA. |
| 18 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, 26 Jan. 1919, LL. |
| 19 | Lockhart, unpublished diary entry, 23 Feb. 1919; Moura, letters to Lockhart, 2 Nov. 1918, 14 Feb. 1919, HIA. |
| 20 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, 14 Feb. 1919, HIA. |
| 21 | Moura, letter to Lockhart, 14 Feb. 1919, HIA. |
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