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Exploring fact and fiction in the portrayal of the Metropol Hotel in ‘A Gentleman in Moscow‘ – in print and on TV – by the author of ‘The Red Hotel’ which tells the stories of Brits and Americans who lived there in wartime.
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How many KGB spies worked for The Times? (opens the original)
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On Saturday The Times had a revealing article about Micky Burn, a correspondent for the paper who was one of the many lovers of Guy Burgess, the Soviet agent who defected to Moscow in 1951. Ben Macintyre’s article was based on a previously unpublished document written by Burn in 1987 that charted his long and tempestuous love affair with Burgess. Apart from Burn’s portrait of an era when almost everyone in London’s smart set seemed to be bisexual, there was one nugget that particularly intrigued
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