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her responsive sympathy, was carried away into
the same groove. She contributed to newspapers,
wrote poetry, dramatic criticism, etc., always
anonymously; she also published a novel, ‘The
Private Lecturer,’ which treated of university life
in a small German town, and was considered
very promising.
Aniuta, who also settled down in Petersburg
with her husband for some years, became a really
successful authoress. Woldemar Kovalevsky
worked chiefly at translations, and published
several popular scientific works, Brehm’s
celebrated ‘Birds,’ for example.
The fortune Sonia inherited from her father
was very small at present, as he had left the
bulk of his property to his wife; and the life
the Kovalevskys were leading necessitated a
certain luxury. This may have given Sonia the
first idea of throwing herself into business
speculations. Though her husband was personally
indifferent to all kinds of luxury, his lively and
impressionable imagination was soon carried away
by these ideas, and so one industrial enterprise
followed another. They built houses in St
Petersburg, bathing establishments, an orangery;
they edited papers, started inventions of different
kinds, and for a time everything seemed to
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