Illustrations

1. Henry Sidgwick (Getty)

2. F. W. H. Myers

3. Alfred Russel Wallace (Corbis)

4. Balfour with George V (Lady Kremer)

5. Mary Lyttelton

6. Winifred Coombe-Tennant with Henry (Lady Kremer)

7. Street scene in Petrograd (from Russia in the Shadows)

8. Robert Bruce Lockhart (Corbis)

9. Wells, Gorky and Moura Budberg (Special Collections Library, University of Illinois)

10. Lenin and Wells (from Russia in the Shadows)

11. Stalin and Gorky on the steps of Lenin’s tomb (Getty)

12. Building Lenin’s tomb (David King)

13. Menzhinsky (Corbis)

14. Edward Thomas (Getty)