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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Note to Readers
Prelude: Invicta
Book I: The First Life of Marydear
Chapter One: Ducky
Chapter Two: The Viper
Chapter Three: The Heritage of Ignaty Platonovich Zakrevsky
Chapter Four: Alla and Anna
Chapter Five: The Perfect Son-in-Law
Chapter Six: “For Better or for Worse, the Deed Is Done”
Chapter Seven: The Belle Epoque of Madame von Benckendorff
Chapter Eight: Moura Benckendorff of the Yendel Estate in Estonia
Chapter Nine: The War
Chapter Ten: Heroes and Gods
Chapter Eleven: The February Revolution
Chapter Twelve: The October Revolution
Chapter Thirteen: Something Entered My Life…
Book II: The Second Life of Moura Benckendorff
Chapter Fourteen: The Great Adventure
Chapter Fifteen: Double Agent?
Chapter Sixteen: Little Peter
Chapter Seventeen: Gypsy Waltzes over a Nest of Spies
Chapter Eighteen: The Lockhart Plot
Chapter Nineteen: In a Bind
Book III: The Third Life of Maria Ignatyevna
Chapter Twenty: One Day Closer to the Day We See Each Other Again…
Chapter Twenty-One: The Thousand Degrees of a Descent into Hell
Chapter Twenty-Two: Among the People of the Past
Chapter Twenty-Three: World Literature
Chapter Twenty-Four: Free Fall
Chapter Twenty-Five: The Two Animals
Chapter Twenty-Six: The Duke and the Contessa
Chapter Twenty-Seven: The H. G. Wells Intermezzo
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Crossing to the Other Side of the Mirror
Book IV: The Fourth Life of the Signora Baronessa
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Children on the Lake’s Banks
Chapter Thirty: On the Razor’s Edge
Chapter Thirty-One: Gorky versus Budberg
Chapter Thirty-Two: The Woman with Soles of Wind: “Your Chubanka, Who Loves You”
Chapter Thirty-Three: Crisis
Book V: The Fifth Life of Moura Budberg
Chapter Thirty-Four: Between Two Seas
Chapter Thirty-Five: Baroness Bedbug: Engagement, Fidelity, and Compromise
Chapter Thirty-Six: One Suitcase… Just One
Chapter Thirty-Seven: Deny, Always Deny, Deny Forever, Deny Even Under the Guillotine… and After!
Chapter Thirty-Eight: Checkmate
Chapter Thirty-Nine: Freeze Frame
Variations And Finale: But, Darling, ‘That’s’ Adventure!
Appendices
Author’s Acknowledgments
Translator’s Acknowledgments
About the Author
Bibliography
Copyright
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