“...I was the youngest, and it just so happened that I was also the only heir of the family. The Matkovsky family might have ended with me, or it might not have ended, who knows, God forgive me. Understand, all attention was focused not on my grandfather or my aunt, who arrived straight from Paris, but on me - after all, I had a huge responsibility. And everyone was worried about me. You can understand. After all, I didn’t have a woman, no. I don’t know how it happened..."