Formative years? you jest!
Cummings spent his formative years in Durham,a place noted for a largely incomprehensible accent rather that a hot bed of Russian intrigue.
He actually worked in Russia from1994-7.

If you want reds in the bed you would be better served studying the antics of certain of corbyn's clowns. Did the master himself not go on a bicycle made for two with dazy abbot for an assignation in E. Germany with the Stasi?