- 18, 9th liniya V.O.
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59.939329966306, 30.27940086683 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)
- Façade facing the street
- Number of faces
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5
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Историческая справка
The life of Sofya Kovalevskaya, the first female mathematician in Russia, the world’s first female professor of mathematics, the author of numerous scientific works on physics and mathematics is closely connected with St. Petersburg and Vasilyevsky Island. Although, the street named after her is now located in a completely different part of the city.
From early childhood, the girl showed talent for mathematics and at the age of 16, Sofya Korvin-Krukovskaya left to study in the capital. However, in those days, a girl could not get a higher education in Russia and could study abroad only with the permission of her parents or her husband. Therefore, Sofia resorted to a desperate move by contracting a fictitious marriage with a young scientist-geologist Vladimir Kovalevsky. After that, she entered the University of Heidelberg in Germany where in 1874 she passed Ph.D. defence and earned the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Returning to St. Petersburg, Kovalevskaya was not allowed to teach at St. Petersburg University: even with the academic degree, she could only teach mathematics to girls at a women’s gymnasium. Sofia was so disappointed that for six years she stayed away from mathematics and tried to find herself in literature.
The young scientists who returned to Russia and whose fictitious marriage grew into a real family needed material resources for their scientific activities and research. In 1877, the Kovalevsky couple moved to the house of Sophia’s mother, general’s wife Elizaveta Korvin-Krukovskaya (17, 6th liniya V.O.). At the time, it was a one-and-a-half-story stone mansion. In May 1877, the construction of a five-story wing for renting began in the courtyard of their house. For a while, renting the flats allowed the spouses to stay afloat and continue their scientific activities. Later, the house was passed over to Sophia’s sister Anne Jaclard, an activist of the Paris Commune. The flats were rented by famous historians, teachers, and academics. For example, future academician and orientalist Sergei Oldenburg lived in this house in the 1880’s-1890’s. However, in the early 20th century, the building was remodelled and a five-storey rental house was constructed in its place for public officer Dmitry Ivanov whose monogram still remains on the leaves of the main entrance. In this house, the future poet and prose writer Vadim Shefner spent his childhood and youth.
Bolstered by the successful renting of flats in the 6th liniya, the Kovalevskys borrowed money for construction and in 1878-1879 began constructing a rental house in the 9th liniya, with baths in the courtyard, according to the design of Pavel Syuzor. But the investment did not pay off, only ruined its owners. The house was sold. The so called Andreyevskiye bani/Andreyev Baths have not survived to this day — they were torn down in the 1980’s. For many years, the house was associated with science: from the 1970’s to 2012, the AkademKnigi store was located in its basement.
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