Metamorphosis

Sofya Kovalevskaya

Chapter Chapter Three in A Russian Childhood, 1978, pp 77-81 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract With our move to the country, our household underwent a radical change. All at once my parents’ life, so gay and lighthearted until then, took a more somber turn. My father had paid us little notice up to that time, for he considered bringing up children to be a woman’s and not a man’s affair. He was more concerned with Anyuta than with the other children, for she was the eldest, and she was a very amusing child. He loved to find occasions for indulging her. He sometimes took her sledding in winter, and liked to boast about her to our guests. When her naughti-ness went beyond all bounds and exasperated the servants past endurance, they sometimes went to Father to complain about her. But he would turn the whole thing into a joke, and Anyuta understood perfectly that even though he sometimes put a stern expression on his face for appear-ance’s sake, he was inwardly ready to laugh her naughtiness away.

Date: 1978
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4757-3839-1_4

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