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The oth­er walls were cov­ered with lith­o­graphed lec­ture notes that her father wrote while attend­ing a cal­cu­lus class giv­en by the promi­nent Russ­ian math­e­mati­cian, Mikhail Vasi­lye­vich Ostro­grad­sky. As a result, Sofya’s room was only par­tial­ly cov­ered with wall­pa­per. How­ev­er, there was not enough wall­pa­per for all the rooms. In her mem­oir titled Her Rec­ol­lec­tions of Child­hood, Sofya writes that they ren­o­vat­ed the rooms when they moved into the cas­tle. When she was eight years old, her father retired and moved the fam­i­ly to an estate in Pal­i­b­i­no. Addi­tion­al­ly, Sofya’s great-grand­fa­ther was the promi­nent astronomer Frei­drich Theodor Schubert.

Her moth­er was the daugh­ter of Gen­er­al Theodor Friedrich von Schu­bert, an hon­orary mem­ber of the Russ­ian Acad­e­my of the Sci­ences and direc­tor of the Kun­stkam­era Muse­um. He was also the descen­dant of a Hun­gar­i­an roy­al fam­i­ly. Her father, Lieu­tenant Gen­er­al Vasi­ly Vasi­lye­vich Korvin-Krukovsky, was an artillery gen­er­al for the Impe­r­i­al Russ­ian army. She had an old­er sis­ter and a younger broth­er. Sofya was born in Moscow on Jan­u­ary 15, 1850. She not only enjoyed math­e­mat­ics, but she also enjoyed writ­ing and lit­er­a­ture. Sofya Kovalevskaya was an extra­or­di­nary woman with mul­ti­ple tal­ents.

And right­ly so because she was born and raised in Rus­sia. Yet, Russia’s acad­e­mia nev­er offered her a full pro­fes­sor­ship despite all her accomplishments. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances and used their intellect to change their own lives, and their country's future.This same year, Sofya also became a cor­re­spond­ing mem­ber of the Russ­ian Acad­e­my of Sci­ences. Hidden Figures follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA's greatest successes. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam's call, moving to Hampton, Virginia and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South's segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America's aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.