Annotation: Nina Mikhailovna Subbotina (1877 – 1961) could be considered the Stephen Hawking of Russian science—and rightfully so. One of Russia’s first female astronomers, she received a college education, but could not work in scientific institutions due to a serious illness she suffered in childhood. Having created her own observatory, Subbotina successfully engaged in observational astronomy and the study of solar-terrestrial relations. The data from her observations were regularly published in the most prestigious international astronomical journals, but her sphere of interests was much wider. She became the first woman in Russia to write a book on the history of astronomy (The History of Halley's Comet), which received a prize from the Russian Astronomical Society. Among contemporary astronomers, Subbotina was a legend. Deaf and mute, she kept in touch with her colleagues through extensive correspondence. Her letters have preserved evidence of the lively attitude of her contemporaries toward a whole spectrum of astronomical topics of the 20th century—from the cosmological ideas of Lemaitre, to the launch of the first artificial satellites. In this book, historian Olga Valkova has meticulously collected Nina Subbotina’s epistolary correspondences, supplementing them with archival sources that have never been published before. Altogether, The Life and Incredible Adventures of Subbotina the Astronomer offers an alternative reading of the history of 20th-century astronomy.