The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West by Shaun Walker museums poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was

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Christiansen paints a vivid portrait of Serge Diaghilev – an art connoisseur with no dance training who nonetheless assembled a constellation of talent

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The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West by Shaun Walker museums poetry's pre-eminence in Russia wasThe Illegals by Shaun Walker pulls back the curtain on Russias most audacious spy programme deepcover agents who lived as foreign aristocrats, merchants or students, sometimes for decades. Based on archival research and interviews, Walker reveals how these illegals rewrote espionage and shaped the hidden history of Russia and the West. In 2010, two decades after the Cold War had ended, ten Russian spies were arrested in America, having hidden their