Nabokov Museum

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NABOKOV MUSEUM, St Petersburg (47 Bolshaya Morskaya Street). The museum was established in 1993 on the initiative of the Nabokov Foundation. It was incorporated as a private museum and got its present-day name in 1998. The museum is located in the house where V. V. Nabokov was born and lived together with his parents until 15 November, 1917. The house was erected in the first half of the 19th century and later was rebuilt in 1874 by architect L. F. Yafa and in 1901-02 by architects M. F. Geissler and B. F. Guslisty. The former dining room, the living room, the telephone room and the library house the following exhibitions: History of the Nabokov House, Family Album, Life and Creative Work of V. V. Nabokov, and Nabokov’s Estates. The exhibits include family albums and a part of the collection of butterflies gathered by the writer and presented to the museum by Harvard University. The museum hosts annual Nabokov Readings, conferences, seminars, exhibitions, literary and music soirees.

References: Бройтман Л. И., Краснова Е. И. История дома Набоковых // Набоковский вестн. СПб., 1999. Вып. 3. С. 37-45; Коляда М. И. Современное состояние дома на Большой Морской, 47 и концепция его реставрации // Там же. С. 70-72; Клименко Л. Ф. Санкт-Петербургский музей В. В. Набокова: [Буклет]. СПб., 1999.

A. D. Margolis. Geissler Mikhail Fedorovich
Guslisty Boris Fedorovich
Jafa (Jaffa) Ludwig (Lev) Fedorovich
Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich
Bolshaya Morskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 47
Клименко Л.Ф. Санкт-Петербургский музей В. В. Набокова: [Буклет]. СПб., 1999
Бройтман Л. И., Краснова Е. И. История дома Набоковых // Набоковский вестн. СПб., 1999
Коляда М. И. Современное состояние дома на Большой Морской, 47 и концепция его реставрации // Набоковский вестн. СПб., 1999 1993