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VI
MY attachment to my other uncle, my mother’s
brother, Feödor Feodorovitch Schubert, was of
an entirely different nature.
This uncle, the only son of my deceased
grandfather,1 was considerably younger than my mother;
he lived permanently in Petersburg, and, in his
quality of sole male representative of the Schubert family,
he enjoyed the unbounded adoration of all his sisters,
and of numerous aunts and cousins, all unmarried
spinsters.
His arrival to visit us in the country was regarded
as a real event. I was nine years old when he came
to us for the first time. Uncle’s coming had been
talked about for many weeks in advance. The best
room in the house was assigned to him, and mama
herself saw to it that the* most comfortable furniture
was placed in it. The carriage was sent to meet him
at the capital of the government, one hundred and
fifty versts distant; and in the carriage were placed a
fur coat, a fur lap-robe, and a plaid, that uncle might
not take cold, as it was låte in the autumn.
1 Sophia Kovalévsky’s grandfather, Feödor Feodorovitch
Schubert, general of infantry, was a fine mathematician, and
was at the head of the Topographical Corps. His father was still
more noted as a mathematician, being an astronomer, at the
end of the last century.—"S. V. Kovalévsky," published by the
Mathematical Society of the Moscow University.
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