Mummy was interested in Russia. I am not sure how it started. When I first went to London I was always working on cases fighting against Russian oligarchs with dodgy reputations. We all started to become interested in them. We visited Kenwood near where I was living and it hosted an amazing exhibition of art from the collection of Catherine the Great who had bought the art from Robert Walpole so it had been lent back for the exhibition. For years after that first exhibition Mummay and Daddy would come to London and we visited Somerset house together, invariably with Clare, to see collections of art from Catherine the Great’s Hermitage which were loaned to Somerset house. Mummy loved the Faberge eggs but she was fascinated by all of it and I think would have loved to have gone to see the Hermitage in person - notwithstanding the violence still being experienced there. I think it was from those exhibitions and the fact that for years she had, during the winter worn a fur hat that Clare instigated a myth that Mummy was actually Russian. Mummy was of course so full of fun that she went along with this fantasy. We developed for ourselves an imagined Russian form of name for Mummy. It was however absurdly long (Mummymiakinskavisakavoybabushka.com) so we shortened it to the more usable Mitzkavoy. When Mummy obtained her first email address she used her Russian name for it ( there was no consistent spelling of it so it was a nightmare to use but it meant that she received very little spam - it was not a recognisable name anywhere including Russia) Mummyakins  or Mia, another shortened version of the long form name that we invented, continued to be used by us for over twenty years - it was our name for her and I think she enjoyed it. We hardly ever wrote it down but we would call her by it all the time.