children in the house of general krugovsky. they did not sit idle. anyuta is the older sister.onya did not leave the desk . her brother composed stories and short stories, fedya pretended to be diligently fulfilling the task of a home teacher, while secretly shuffling a deck of cards. and sonya sonya constantly considered something, calculated, tried to unravel the mysterious formulas on the walls of her room, and for a long time i talked with my uncle peter, we feed kurkovsky. from him i had to hear for the first time about some mathematical concepts that made a particularly strong impression on me. uncle spoke about the square of the circle, about the symptoms of straight lines, which the curve gradually approaches, never reaches them, and about many other things that are completely incomprehensible to me, which seemed to me something mysterious and at the same time, especially attractive from the memoirs of sofia kovalevskaya when pyotr vasilyevich tired of talking with young sophia about virtues of mathematics, he furiously demanded that the governess margaret smith, a subj