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Russian Child and Russian Wife

Биографии и мемуары

Автор: Svetlova-Matthews Tanya

Год: 1949

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Tanya Matthews began life as Tatiana Borisovna Svetlova in Russian Empire, in the Chechen capital, Grozny, in 1913. She married young, to a revolutionary cameraman. They fled to Moscow after she got into trouble with the KGB. It was there that she met and fell in love with the British correspondent Ronnie Matthews. She divorced her husband and fled Russia in 1944 with her new British spouse and baby son, Christopher, but she was forced to leave Anna, the daughter from her first marriage, behind.
The couple made their way to Paris where, having fallen on hard times, Tanya played the casinos to keep the family afloat. Ronnie encouraged her to write and her two-volume autobiography, Russian Child and Russian Wife in 1949 - the first account of life inside Stalin's Russia - and Russian Wife Goes West (1955), made quite a stir. In London, Ronnie was recruited by the BBC and sent in the late Fifties to Tunis to cover the Algerian war of independence. When Ronnie died in Tunis in 1966, it was to Tanya - by this time with formidable local contacts and knowledge - that the BBC African Service looked to be its reporter.
Tanya Matthews's journalism was pure and simple, with no holds barred. Any other foreign reporter would have been expelled for writing half as much as she got away with. Only she could describe Tunisia as a police state without being bundled on to the first plane. But she was smart - she had an amazing network of influential friends to discourage any rash move by the authorities.

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