Nabokov V.V. (1899-1977), writer

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NABOKOV Vladimir Vladimirovich (1899, St. Petersburg - 1977), poet, prose writer, playwright, translator, literary critic. The son of V.D. Nabokov (see the Nabokov Family). The childhood of Nabokov passed in the Anglicised setting of a Petersburg aristocratic family (he was born in the house at 47 Bolshaya Morskaya Street, memorial plaque; from 1993 the museum of Nabokov V.V.). The atmosphere of the childhood is recreated in the autobiography Drugie berega (English version Conclusive evidence, Speak, memory - 1951; Russian version - 1954). He received a home education; from 1911 he studied at the Tenishevsky School, spent summer at the family estates close to St. Petersburg (Vyra, Batovo, Rozhdestveno). In 1914 he published his first collection of poems (not preserved), the second - Poems - was published in 1916. In November 1917 Nabokov family left St. Petersburg. Until 1919 Nabokov remained in the Crimea, and then emigrated to Great Britain; in 1919-22 he was a student of Cambridge University. Later lived in Germany, France, the USA and Switzerland. One of the best known writers of the so-called Russian emigration.

References: В. В. Набоков: pro et contra: Личность и творчество Владимира Набокова в оценке рус. и заруб. мыслителей и исследователей: Антология. СПб., 1999; Бойд Б. В. Владимир Набоков: Рус. годы: Биография. М.; СПб., 2001.

T. M. Dvinyatina. Nabokov Vladimir Dmitrievich
Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich
Bolshaya Morskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 47
В. В. Набоков: pro et contra: Личность и творчество Владимира Набокова в оценке рус. и зарубеж. мыслителей и исследователей: Антол. СПб., 1999
Бойд Б. В. Владимир Набоков: Рус. годы: Биогр. М.; СПб., 2001 Tenishev's School
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