This was provided by Albert W. G. Ervine, who came upon my shaggy dog page.

Lura, the Countess of Killarney, was on a world tour with her husband, the Count. They were staying at an Intourist hotel on the edge of the Ural Mountains and were scheduled to begin an escorted horseback tour of the area early the next morning.

Lura had developed a good tan a month earlier on the beach at Nice, but now she noticed that it … Read the rest...