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Stepan & Nina Smigunov

The Smigunovs, or Smigs as Ella Maillart called them, traveled with Fleming and Maillart from Peking to Lanzhou, where they were stopped by the Chinese authorities, and turned back – thus disappearing from our story. We do not have a photograph of them, and biographical informations are sketchy at best. Stepan Ivanovich Smigunov was a former commanding officer of a Russian poison gas squad during…

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