Question: Who was the surgeon's son turned spy sent to St Petersburg, Russia's second largert city?

 Destined to succeed his father, he nevertheless left his home for Paris when he was 12, and ended up in the Bicêtre Prison.  He was released at the coronation of Louis XVI of France in 1774, but in 1776, after the death of his parents, Méhée was again imprisoned in the Bicêtre.  He escaped when he was sent to Brest to serve on the French fleet.  He returned to Paris after the French Revolution, and was sent to Saint Petersburg as a spy under the name "Chevalier de La Touche" by Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau and Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette.  He was soon uncovered and was sent out of Russia in March 1791.  His next appointment as a spy was in Poland, where he established the "Gazette de Varsovie", a French newspaper in Warsaw.  Again his role as a spy was discovered, and he was banished from Poland as well. Jean-Claude-Hippolyte Méhée de La Touche (1762-1826) was the son of a surgeon in Meaux. <SEP> Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг , "Sankt-Peterburg"; ] ) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with five million inhabitants in 2012, and an important Russian port on the Baltic Sea.  It is politically incorporated as a federal subject (a federal city).  Situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, it was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on May 27 [O.S. 16] 1703 .  In 1914, the name was changed from Saint Petersburg to Petrograd (Russian: Петрогра́д ; ] ), in 1924 to Leningrad (Russian: Ленингра́д ; ] ), and in 1991 back to Saint Petersburg.  Between 1713 and 1728 and in 1732–1918, Saint Petersburg was the capital of imperial Russia.  In 1918, the central government bodies moved to Moscow. <SEP> The Miss V of the title is Vera Marova, a Soviet spy sent to Paris to impersonate her lookalike, a German spy recently liquidated by the French Resistance.  As with other, better-known American films produced in the midst of World War II like "Mission to Moscow" and "Song of Russia", the film has a pronounced pro-Soviet tone. <SEP> Lieutenant Colonel John Dymoke Scale DSO, OBE (born 27th December 1882) was a MI6 (SIS) agent, originally from Merthyr Tydfil in Glamorgan.  He was involved in a British propaganda unit called the Anglo-Russian Commission in St Petersburg, where his responsibilities included running Mohammed Beck Hadjetlaché.  Scale served in the British Indian Army and was first sent to Russia in 1912.  He qualified as a Russian translator in 1913 and rejoined the 87th Punjabis in 1914.  In 1916, Scale served with Stephen Alley and Oswald Rayner under Mansfield Cumming at the time of the murder of Grigori Rasputin.  Whilst a Captain in St Petersburg, in the weeks leading up to the killing, Scale is recorded as having met with Oswald Rayner and Felix Yusupov in the diary of their chauffeur, William Compton.  Several other books and documentaries have claimed Scale's involvement in Rasputin's death, or even alleged that Scale commanded Rayner to fatally shoot him.  A letter from Alley to Scale provides the best evidence of British Intelligence involvement in the murder and torture that reads :