Tama Matheson
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770 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
Tama Matheson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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One of the earliest griefs of my life, I think, was having to leave the beautiful town of Votkinsk and exchange it for the rambling urban squalor of Moscow, which is a city I never came to love, although I lived there for a long time.
Alexandra.
She was my father's second wife.
He had a child by his first wife, Maria.
Her name was Zinaida, my eldest sister.
My father and mother were deeply in love.
He was a widower, I assume.
He was a widower, yes, indeed.
He meets your mother, Alexander.
She's my mother.
Is she beautiful?
A very beautiful lady with French ancestry.
And so I always had a sort of yen for France and a sympathy with French culture.
I learned French as early as I could.
Indeed, we had a Swiss-French nurse when I was a boy, a wonderful girl called Fanny Durbach, who taught me French and German as a boy.
So I was able to converse in those languages.
And I came to adore her almost as much as my own mother.
It broke my heart when she left.
Well, they were very much in love.
My father was a very soft and gentle man who almost smothered us with kindness.
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