Tama Matheson

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770 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 28 Jul

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Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth · More Rosebud - Tchaikovsky · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

And I said, I will show you how.

I will eschew my wicked habits forever.

I will marry someone, anyone.

I will enter into matrimony with anyone prepared to have me.

And just at that moment, a letter arrived from a young lady called Antonina Milyukova.

who had, it seems, been a pupil of mine at the Conservatoire, and she wrote to say that she had fallen under the tyranny of very strong affections for me, and she was in love with me and wished to marry me, and she would kill herself if I would not marry her.

Now, I felt at first revulsion at this letter, but I felt that I had to answer it because I couldn't, like Onegin, be heartless to this sincere girl.

And I had just been working on my opera, Evgenia Onegin, which tells of the young, sincere Tatyana and how she writes a letter to Onegin is horribly rejected.

I couldn't be heartless like Onegin.

So reality and fiction began to blur together in my mind.

And she became the image of Tatyana for me.

And I had fallen in love with my own character by then.

And I met her in St.

Petersburg.

And stupidly, I told her I intended to marry.

I could never love her as a husband.

I would always love her as a brother.

And I would always be her staunch and grateful friend.

And would she be prepared to marry me under these conditions?

She said yes.

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