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Here is what Vladimir Nabokov wrote in his autobiography:

In addition to Vladimir himself, his mother and his wife were synesthetics; his son Dmitry Vladimirovich Nabokov also had synesthesia.

Nobel Prize in Literature

Beginning in the 1960s, rumors spread about a possible nomination of Vladimir Nabokov for the Nobel Prize. In 1972, two years after receiving the prestigious prize, Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote a letter to the Swedish committee recommending that Nabokov be nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Although the nomination did not materialize, Nabokov expressed deep gratitude to Solzhenitsyn for this gesture in a letter sent in 1974 after Solzhenitsyn's expulsion from the USSR. Subsequently, the authors of many publications (in particular, the London Times, The Guardian, New York Times) ranked Nabokov among those writers who were undeservedly not included in the lists of nominees.

Teaching activity

He taught Russian and world literature and published several courses of literary lectures, created translations of "Eugene Onegin" and "The Tale of Igor's Campaign" into English.

Chess

He was seriously fond of chess: he was a rather strong practical player and published a number of interesting chess problems.

In some novels, the chess motif becomes pervasive: in addition to the obvious dependence of the fabric of Luzhin's Defense on chess, in the "true life of Sebastian Knight" many meanings are revealed if the names of the characters are read correctly: the protagonist Knight is a knight on the chessboard of the novel, Bishop is an elephant .

Entomology

Nabokov was a self-taught entomologist. He made a significant contribution to lepidopterology (a section of entomology focusing on Lepidoptera), discovered twenty species of butterflies, and authored eighteen scientific articles. Curated the Butterfly Department at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University.

After the death of the writer, his wife Vera presented a collection of butterflies in 4324 copies to the University of Lausanne.

In 1945, based on the analysis of the genitals of bluebird butterflies, he developed a new classification for the genus Polyommatus, which differs from the generally accepted one. For decades, Nabokov's hypothesis was not taken seriously. The hypothesis was later confirmed by DNA analysis.

Nabokov about himself

Bibliography

Screen adaptations

Television versions of theatrical performances

1992 - "Lolita" (Roman Viktyuk Theatre), duration 60 min. (Russia, director: Roman Viktyuk, cast: Unknown Gentleman - Sergey Vinogradov, Humbert Humbert - Oleg Isaev, Lolita - Lyudmila Pogorelova, Charlotte - Valentina Talyzina, Quilty - Sergey Makovetsky, Annabel / Louise / Ruta / Elder sister / Second sister - Ekaterina Karpushina, Rita - Svetlana Parkhomchik, Young Man - Sergey Zhurkovsky, Dick / Bill - Anton Khomyatov, Little Girl - Varya Lazareva)
2000 - "King, Queen, Jack", duration 2 hours 33 minutes. (Russia, director: V. B. Pazi, cast: Elena Komissarenko, Dmitry Barkov, Mikhail Porechenkov, Alexander Sulimov, Irina Balai, Margarita Aleshina, Konstantin Khabensky, Andrey Zibrov)
2001 - "Mashenka" - TV version of the play by the Theater Company of Sergei Vinogradov. In 1997, Sergei staged the play Nabokov, Masha, which opened the Sergei Vinogradov Theater Company. For this work, in 1999, he received the prize "For the best plastic direction" at the theater festival dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Nabokov. Duration 1 hour 33 minutes. (Russia, director: Sergey Vinogradov, cast: Ganin - Evgeny Stychkin, Mashenka - Elena Zakharova, Alferov - Boris Kamorzin, Podtyagin - Anatoly Chaliapin, Clara - Olga Novikova, Kolin - Grigory Perel, Gornotsvetov - Vladimir Tyagichev, Maria Alferova - Natalya Zakharov)
2002 - "Lolita, or In Search of a Lost Paradise" (Donetsk Academic Order of Honor Regional Russian Drama Theatre, Mariupol), duration 2 hours 25 minutes. (1st act - 1 hour 18 minutes, 2nd act - 1 hour 07 minutes) (Ukraine, director: Anatoly Levchenko, cast: Humbert Humbert - Oleg Grishkin, Lolita - Oksana Lyalko, Charlotte Hayes - Natalya Atroshchenkova, Claire Quilty - Alexander Arutyunyan, Louise - Natalya Metlyakova, Humbert in childhood - Mikhail Starodubtsev, Youth - Valentin Pilipenko, Doctor - Igor Kurashko, Dick - Andrey Makarchenko, Constance - Inna Meshkova)

Films about Nabokov

2007 - "Nabokov: Happy Years (2 films)" - a documentary about Vladimir Nabokov. Duration about 60 min. (2 parts, approximately 30 minutes each) (dir. Maria Gershtein)
2009 - "Geniuses and villains of the outgoing era: Vladimir Nabokov" - a documentary television program from a well-known cycle in Russia. Duration 26 min. (broadcast November 17, 2009)

Museums

In October 2006, the Vladimir Nabokov Museum in St. Petersburg hosted a photo exhibition "Nabokov Addresses", which presents photographs of the houses where Nabokov and his family lived. The authors of the photo are D. Konradt, D. Ripple, I. Kaznob, A. Nakata and the chief curator of the Nabokov Museum E. Kuznetsova.

The asteroid 7232 Nabokov was named after Vladimir Nabokov in 1985.

Essays ("Nikolai Gogol", 1944).

Translations into English of "Eugene Onegin" by Alexander Pushkin, "A Hero of Our Time" by Mikhail Lermontov and "The Tale of Igor's Campaign".

The poetics of stylistically refined prose is composed of both realistic and modernist elements (linguistic-stylistic play, all-encompassing parody, imaginary hallucinations). A principled individualist, Nabokov is ironic in his perception of any kind of mass psychology and global ideas (especially Marxism, Freudianism). Nabokov's peculiar literary style was characterized by playing a charade of reminiscences and puzzles of encrypted quotations.

Nabokov is a synesthetic

Synesthesia is a phenomenon of perception when, when one sense organ is irritated, along with sensations specific to it, sensations corresponding to another sense organ arise, in other words, signals emanating from different sense organs are mixed and synthesized. A person not only hears sounds, but also sees them, not only touches an object, but also feels its taste. The word "synesthesia" comes from Συναισθησία and means a mixed sensation (as opposed to "anesthesia" - the absence of sensations).

Here is what Vladimir Nabokov wrote in his autobiography:

The confession of a synesthete will be called pretentious and boring by those who are protected from such infiltrations and strainings by more dense partitions than I am protected. But to my mother it all seemed quite natural. We talked about this when I was in my seventh year, I was building a castle from multi-colored alphabet blocks and casually remarked to her that they were painted incorrectly. We immediately found out that some of my letters were the same color as hers, in addition, musical notes also optically affected her. They did not excite any chromatisms in me.

In addition to Vladimir himself, his mother and his wife were synesthetics; his son Dmitry Vladimirovich Nabokov also had synesthesia.

Nobel Prize in Literature

Beginning in the 1960s, rumors spread about Vladimir Nabokov's possible nomination for the Nobel Prize.

In 1972, two years after receiving the prestigious prize, Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote a letter to the Swedish committee recommending that Nabokov be nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Although the nomination did not materialize, Nabokov expressed deep gratitude to Solzhenitsyn for this gesture in a letter sent in 1974 after Solzhenitsyn's expulsion from the USSR. Subsequently, the authors of many publications (in particular, London Times, The Guardian, New York Times) ranked Nabokov among those writers who were undeservedly not included in the lists of nominees.

Teaching activity

He taught Russian and world literature, translated "Eugene Onegin" and "The Tale of Igor's Campaign" into English. The lectures were published posthumously by the American bibliographer Fredson Bowers with the assistance of the writer's widow V. E. Nabokova and son D. V. Nabokov: "Lectures on Literature" (1980), "Lectures on Russian Literature" (1981), "Lectures on Don Quixote" (1983).

Chess

He was seriously fond of chess: he was a rather strong practical player and published a number of interesting chess problems.

In addition to Vladimir himself, his mother and his wife were synesthetics; his son Dmitry Vladimirovich Nabokov also had synesthesia.

Nobel Prize in Literature

Beginning in the 1960s, rumors spread about a possible nomination of Vladimir Nabokov for the Nobel Prize. Nabokov was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature at least three times: in 1963 by Robert Adams, in 1964 by Elizabeth Hill, and in 1965 by Andrew J Chiappe and Frederick Wilcox Dupee.

In 1972, two years after receiving the prestigious prize, Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote a letter to the Swedish committee recommending that Nabokov be nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Although the nomination did not materialize, Nabokov expressed deep gratitude to Solzhenitsyn for this gesture in a letter sent in 1974 after Solzhenitsyn's expulsion from the USSR. Subsequently, the authors of many publications (in particular, the London Times, The Guardian, New York Times) ranked Nabokov among those writers who were undeservedly not included in the lists of nominees.

Entomology

Nabokov was a professional entomologist. His interest in this area arose under the influence of the books of Maria Sibylla Merian, which he found in the attic of the Vyra estate. Nabokov made a significant contribution to lepidopterology (a section of entomology dedicated to Lepidoptera), having discovered many types of butterflies, over 30 species of butterflies (including Madeleinea lolita) and the genus of butterflies Nabokovia were named in his honor and the names of the heroes of his works.

Part of the collection of butterflies collected by Nabokov in the 1940s - 1950s, which was in the Museum of Contemporary Zoology at Harvard University (USA), with the help of the zoologist N.A. Formozov, was donated to the Nabokov Museum after the death of the writer. Nabokov worked at the Harvard Museum for seven years (1941-1948) and most of his personal collection, collected over the years, was donated by him to this museum. Butterflies from this collection were collected by him during his summer travels in the western states of the United States. It is noteworthy that the description of these travels, including cafes and motels, subsequently entered the Lolita novel as a description of the travels of a pedophile criminal and his victim.

After the death of the writer, his wife Vera presented a collection of butterflies in 4324 copies to the University of Lausanne.

In 1945, based on the analysis of the genitals of male pigeon butterflies, he developed a new classification for the genus Polyommatus, which differs from the generally accepted one. Later, Nabokov's point of view on the taxonomy of pigeons was confirmed by DNA analysis.

According to the biologist Nikolai Formozov, butterflies were an integral part of the figurative system of most of Nabokov's works: for example, in the story "Christmas", Sleptsov's internal monologue is interrupted at the word "death" by the unexpected appearance of the butterfly Attacus atlas from the cocoon. Cincinnatus in the novel “Invitation to the Execution”, when writing a letter, is distracted from it to touch the pear-eyed peacock (Saturnia pyri), which later, after the execution of the protagonist, flies out through the broken window of the cell. A swarm of white nocturnal and bright exotic butterflies circles over the deceased Pilgram at the end of the story of the same name. The angel in the story “Blow of the Wing”, according to the description of the writer, is like a night butterfly: “The brown hair on the wings smoked, shimmered with frost<…>[he] leaned on his palms like a sphinx” (“sphinx” is the Latin name for one of the genera of hawk moths - Sphinx). The path of the swallowtail described in the book “Other Shores” repeats the route of his great-uncle, the Decembrist M.A. Nazimov, to the place of his Siberian exile. In total, butterflies are mentioned in the writer's works more than 570 times.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov(also published under the pseudonym Sirin; April 10, 1899, St. Petersburg - July 2, 1977, Montreux) - Russian and American writer, poet, translator, literary critic and entomologist.

Biography

St. Petersburg Museum of V. V. Nabokov. The museum is housed in a house that has belonged to the Nabokov family since 1897. Vladimir Nabokov was born here in 1899 and spent the first 18 years of his life in this house.

Vladimir Nabokov was born on April 10 (22), 1899 in St. Petersburg into a wealthy noble family.

Father - Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov (1869-1922), lawyer, famous politician, one of the leaders of the Constitutional Democratic Party (Cadet Party), from the Russian old noble family of the Nabokovs. Mother - Elena Ivanovna (nee Rukavishnikova; 1876-1939), the daughter of the richest gold miner, came from a small estate noble family.

In addition to Vladimir, there were four more brothers and sisters in the family:

Sergei Vladimirovich Nabokov (1900-1945) - translator, journalist, died in the Nazi concentration camp Neuengamme.
Olga Vladimirovna Nabokova (1903-1978), Shakhovskaya in her first marriage, Petkevich in her second.
Elena Vladimirovna Nabokova (1906-2000), in the first marriage Scolari, in the second - Sikorskaya. Her correspondence with Vladimir Nabokov has been published.
Kirill Vladimirovich Nabokov (1912-1964) - poet, godson of brother Vladimir.

Paternal grandfather, Dmitry Nikolaevich Nabokov, was Minister of Justice in the governments of Alexander II and Alexander III, paternal grandmother Maria Ferdinandovna, Baroness von Korf (1842-1926), daughter of Baron Ferdinand-Nicholas-Victor von Korf (1805-1869) , a German general in the Russian service. Maternal grandfather Ivan Vasilyevich Rukavishnikov (1843-1901), gold miner, philanthropist, maternal grandmother Olga Nikolaevna Rukavishnikova, ur. Kozlova (1845-1901), daughter of Nikolai Illarionovich Kozlov (1814-1889), doctor, professor, head of the Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy.

Three languages were used in everyday life of the Nabokov family: Russian, English and French - thus, the future writer spoke three languages from early childhood. In his own words, he learned to read English before he could read Russian. The first years of Nabokov's life were spent in comfort and prosperity in the Nabokovs' house on Bolshaya Morskaya in St. Petersburg and in their country estate Vyra (near Gatchina).

Estate in Rozhdestveno next to Batovo and Vyra

He began his education at the Tenishevsky School in St. Petersburg, where Osip Mandelstam had studied shortly before. Literature and entomology become Nabokov's two main hobbies.

In the autumn of 1916, a year before the October Revolution, Vladimir Nabokov received the Rozhdestveno estate and a million-dollar inheritance from Vasily Ivanovich Rukavishnikov, his maternal uncle. In 1916, Nabokov, while still a student at the Tenishevsky School, published the first poetry collection Poems (68 poems written from August 1915 to May 1916) in St. Petersburg under his own name. This is the only book by Nabokov officially published in Russia during his lifetime. Nabokov himself never republished the poems from the collection.

The October Revolution forced the Nabokovs to move to the Crimea, where the first literary success came to Vladimir - his works were published in the Yalta Voice newspaper and used by theatrical troupes, who fled in large numbers on the southern coast of Crimea from the dangers of revolutionary times. In April 1919, before the capture of the Crimea by the Bolsheviks, the Nabokov family left Russia forever. Some of the family jewels were taken away with them, and with this money the Nabokov family lived in Berlin, while Vladimir was educated at the University of Cambridge (Trinity College), where he continues to write Russian poetry and translate into Russian "Alice in the Country Miracles by Lewis Carroll. At the University of Cambridge, Nabokov founded the Slavic Society, which later became the Russian Society of the University of Cambridge.

In March 1922, Vladimir Nabokov's father, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, was killed. This happened at a lecture by P. N. Milyukov "America and the Restoration of Russia" in the building of the Berlin Philharmonic. V. D. Nabokov tried to neutralize the Black Hundreds who shot at Milyukov, but was shot dead by his partner.

Berlin (1922-1937)

In 1922 Nabokov moved to Berlin; makes a living teaching English. Nabokov's stories are published in Berlin newspapers and publishing houses organized by Russian emigrants.

In 1922 he becomes engaged to Svetlana Sievert; the engagement was broken off by the bride's family in early 1923 because Nabokov could not find a permanent job.

In 1925, Nabokov marries Vera Slonim, a Petersburger from a Jewish-Russian family. Their first and only child, Dmitry (1934-2012), did a lot of translations and publishing of his father's works and contributed to the popularization of his work, in particular, in Russia.

Shortly after his marriage, he completed his first novel, Mashenka (1926). After that, until 1937, he created 8 novels in Russian, continuously complicating his author's style and experimenting more and more boldly with form. Published under the pseudonym V. Sirin. Published in the journal Sovremennye Zapiski (Paris). Nabokov's novels, which were not published in Soviet Russia, were successful with Western emigration, and are now considered masterpieces of Russian literature (especially Luzhin's Defense, The Gift, Invitation to Execution (1938)).

France and departure to the USA (1937-1940)

In 1936, V. E. Nabokova was fired from her job as a result of the intensification of the anti-Semitic campaign in the country. In 1937, the Nabokovs left for France and settled in Paris, also spending a lot of time in Cannes, Menton and other cities. In May 1940, the Nabokovs flee from Paris from the advancing German troops and move to the United States on the last flight of a passenger liner. Champlain, chartered by the American Jewish agency HIAS to rescue Jewish refugees.

Nabokov's grave in Cimetière de Clarens (Switzerland) USA

In America, from 1940 to 1958, Nabokov made his living by lecturing on Russian and world literature at American universities.

Nabokov wrote his first novel in English (The Real Life of Sebastian Knight) back in Europe, shortly before leaving for the United States. From 1937 until the end of his days, Nabokov did not write a single novel in Russian (except for his autobiography Other Shores and the author's translation of Lolita into Russian). His first English-language novels, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and Bend Sinister, despite their artistic merit, were not commercially successful. During this period, Nabokov closely converged with E. Wilson and other literary critics, continued to professionally engage in entomology. Traveling during his holidays in the United States, Nabokov is working on the novel Lolita, the theme of which (the story of an adult man who is passionately carried away by a twelve-year-old girl) was unthinkable for his time, as a result of which even the writer had little hope of publishing the novel. However, the novel was published (first in Europe, then in America) and quickly brought its author worldwide fame and financial well-being. It is interesting that initially the novel, as Nabokov himself described, was published by the odious Olympia Press publishing house, which, as he realized after publication, produced mainly “semi-pornographic” and similar novels.

Europe again

Nabokov returned to Europe and since 1960 lived in Montreux, Switzerland, where he wrote his last novels, the most famous of which are Pale Fire and Ada (1969).

Nabokov's last unfinished novel, Laura and Her Original. The Original of Laura) was released in English in November 2009. The Azbuka publishing house published its Russian translation in the same year (translated by G. Barabtarlo, edited by A. Babikov).

V. V. Nabokov died on July 2, 1977, he was buried in the cemetery in Clarens, near Montreux, Switzerland.

Addresses in St. Petersburg - Petrograd

Address plate on the house of V. V. Nabokov in St. Petersburg

04/10/1899 - 1917 - Bolshaya Morskaya street, 47.

Young Vladimir Nabokov. Saint Petersburg. 1907

writing style

Nabokov's works are characterized by a complex literary technique, a deep analysis of the emotional state of the characters, combined with an unpredictable, sometimes almost thriller plot. Among the most famous examples of Nabokov's work are the novels Mashenka, Luzhin's Defense, Invitation to Execution, and The Gift. The writer gained fame among the general public after the publication of the scandalous novel Lolita, which was subsequently made into several adaptations (1962, 1997).

In the novels "Protection of Luzhin" (1929-1930), "The Gift" (1937), "Invitation to Execution" (dystopia; 1935-1936), "Pnin" (1957) - a collision of a spiritually gifted loner with a dreary-primitive "average human" world - "petty-bourgeois civilization", or the world of "vulgarity", where imaginary, illusions, fictions rule. However, Nabokov does not remain on a narrow social level, but proceeds to develop a rather metaphysical theme of the relationship between different "worlds": the world of the real and the world of writer's imagination, the world of Berlin and the world of memories of Russia, the world of ordinary people and the world of chess, etc. the flow of these worlds is a modernist trait. Also, a sense of novelty and freedom to these works is given by the fact that in them Nabokov develops vivid language techniques, improves his style, achieving a special salience, tangibility of seemingly fleeting descriptions.

The sensational bestseller "Lolita" (1955) is an experience of combining eroticism, love prose and socio-critical morality, while touching on popular topics, reaching the heights of sophisticated aesthetics and certain philosophical depths. One of the leading problems in the novel is the problem of selfishness, which destroys love. The novel is written on behalf of a refined European, a scientist suffering from a painful passion for nymphet girls as a result of childhood love for a girl, from whom he was separated a short time after meeting.

Lyrics with motives of nostalgia; memoirs ("Memory, speak", 1966).

Stories of amazing lyrical power. They contain in miniature many problems of the writer’s major works: the theme of the “other” world, the theme of a fleeting, elusive experience intertwined with it, etc. The most outstanding works in this genre are the stories “The Return of Chorba”, “Spring in Fialta”, “Christmas” , "Cloud, lake, tower", "Terra Incognita", story "Spy".

Essays ("Nikolai Gogol", 1944).

Translations into English of "Eugene Onegin" by Alexander Pushkin, "The Tale of Igor's Campaign" and "A Hero of Our Time" by Mikhail Lermontov.

The poetics of stylistically refined prose is composed of both realistic and modernist elements (linguistic-stylistic play, all-encompassing parody, imaginary hallucinations). A principled individualist, Nabokov is ironic in his perception of any kind of mass psychology and global ideas (especially Marxism, Freudianism). Nabokov's peculiar literary style was characterized by a game of charade of reminiscences and a puzzle of encrypted quotations.

Nabokov is a synesthetic

Synesthesia is a phenomenon of perception when, when one sense organ is irritated, along with sensations specific to it, sensations corresponding to another sense organ arise, in other words, signals emanating from different sense organs are mixed and synthesized. A person not only hears sounds, but also sees them, not only touches an object, but also feels its taste. The word "synesthesia" comes from the Greek. Συναισθησία and means a mixed sensation (as opposed to "anesthesia" - the absence of sensations).

Here is what Vladimir Nabokov wrote in his autobiography:

In addition to Vladimir himself, his mother and his wife were synesthetics; his son Dmitry Vladimirovich Nabokov also had synesthesia.

Nobel Prize in Literature

Beginning in the 1960s, rumors spread about Vladimir Nabokov's possible nomination for the Nobel Prize.

Teaching activity

He taught Russian and world literature, translated "Eugene Onegin" and "The Tale of Igor's Campaign" into English. The lectures were published posthumously by the American bibliographer Fredson Bowers. with the assistance of the widow of the writer V. E. Nabokova and son D. V. Nabokov: "Lectures on Literature" (1980), "Lectures on Russian Literature" (1981), "Lectures on Don Quixote" (1983).

Chess

He was seriously fond of chess: he was a rather strong practical player and published a number of interesting chess problems.

Entomology

Nabokov was a self-taught entomologist. He made a significant contribution to lepidopterology (a section of entomology dedicated to Lepidoptera), discovered twenty species of butterflies, and was the author of eighteen scientific articles. Butterfly Collection Curator ( Lepidoptera) at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.

After the death of the writer, his wife Vera presented a collection of butterflies in 4324 copies to the University of Lausanne.

Nabokov about himself

I am an American writer, born in Russia, educated in England, where I studied French literature before moving to Germany for fifteen years. … My head speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear speaks French.

Television versions of theatrical performances

1992 - "Lolita" (Roman Viktyuk Theatre), duration 60 min. (Russia, director: Roman Viktyuk, cast: Unknown Gentleman - Sergey Vinogradov, Humbert Humbert - Oleg Isaev, Lolita - Lyudmila Pogorelova, Charlotte - Valentina Talyzina, Quilty - Sergey Makovetsky, Annabel / Louise / Ruta / Elder sister / Second sister - Ekaterina Karpushina, Rita - Svetlana Parkhomchik, Young Man - Sergey Zhurkovsky, Dick / Bill - Anton Khomyatov, Little Girl - Varya Lazareva)
2000 - "King, Queen, Jack", duration 2 hours 33 minutes. (Russia, director: V. B. Pazi, cast: Elena Komissarenko, Dmitry Barkov, Mikhail Porechenkov, Alexander Sulimov, Irina Balai, Margarita Aleshina, Konstantin Khabensky, Andrey Zibrov)
2001 - "Mashenka" - a television version of the play by the Theater Company of Sergei Vinogradov. In 1997, Sergei staged the play Nabokov, Masha, which opened the Sergei Vinogradov Theater Company. For this work, in 1999, he received the prize "For the best plastic direction" at the theater festival dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Nabokov. Duration 1 hour 33 minutes. (Russia, director: Sergey Vinogradov, cast: Ganin - Evgeny Stychkin, Mashenka - Elena Zakharova, Alferov - Boris Kamorzin, Podtyagin - Anatoly Chaliapin, Clara - Olga Novikova, Kolin - Grigory Perel, Gornotsvetov - Vladimir Tyagichev, Maria Alferova - Natalya Zakharov)
2002 - "Lolita, or In Search of the Lost Paradise" (Donetsk Academic Order of Honor Regional Russian Drama Theatre, Mariupol), duration 2 hours 25 minutes. (1st act - 1 hour 18 minutes, 2nd act - 1 hour 07 minutes) (Ukraine, director: Anatoly Levchenko, cast: Humbert Humbert - Oleg Grishkin, Lolita - Oksana Lyalko, Charlotte Hayes - Natalya Atroshchenkova, Claire Quilty - Alexander Arutyunyan, Louise - Natalya Metlyakova, Humbert in childhood - Mikhail Starodubtsev, Youth - Valentin Pilipenko, Doctor - Igor Kurashko, Dick - Andrey Makarchenko, Constance - Inna Meshkova)

Films about Nabokov

1993 - "Mademoiselle O." - a feature film by Jérôme Foulon, produced in Russia and France.
1997 - "Vladimir Nabokov - Secret Passion" film by Valery Balayan, TVC, 1997.
1999 - "The Age of Nabokov". A film by Leonid Parfenov.
2007 - "Nabokov: Happy Years (2 films)" - a documentary about Vladimir Nabokov. Duration about 60 min. (2 parts, approximately 30 minutes each) (dir. Maria Gershtein)
2009 - "Geniuses and villains of the outgoing era: Vladimir Nabokov" - a documentary television program from a well-known cycle in Russia. Duration 26 min (aired November 17, 2009)
2009 - “Vladimir Nabokov. Russian Roots is a documentary film about the family of the famous Russian and American writer Vladimir Nabokov. Duration 52 min (scriptwriters - O. N. Popova, O. V. Chekalina, director - O. V. Chekalina) (TIGR film company with the participation of the Studio Ol film company)

Museums

In honor of Vladimir Nabokov in 1985, the asteroid (7232) Nabokov was named.

Novels

"Mashenka" (1926)
"King, Queen, Jack" (1928)
"Protection of Luzhin" (1930)
"Camera Obscura" (1932)
"Feat" (1932)
"Despair" (1934)
"Invitation to Execution" (1936)
"The Gift" (1938)
"The Real Life of Sebastian Knight" The Real Life of Sebastian Knight) (1941)
"Under the Sign of the Illegitimate" Bend sinister) (1947)
"Lolita" (English) Lolita) (1955)
"Pnin" (English) Pnin) (1957)
"Pale Flame" pale fire) (1962)
Ada, or the Joys of Passion: A Family Chronicle Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle) (1969)
"Transparent Things" transparent things) (1972)
"Look at the harlequins!" (English) Look at the Harlequins!) (1974)
Laura and her original The Original of Laura) (1975-1977, published posthumously in 2009)

Tale

"Spy" (1930)
The Magician (1939, published posthumously in 1986)

Storybooks

Return of Chorba (1930)
Spy (1938)
Nine Stories (1947)
Spring in Fialta (1956)
Nabokov's Dozen: A Collection of Thirteen Stories (1958)
Nabokov's Quartet (1966)
Nabokov's Congeries (1968)
A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1973)
Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1975)
Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976)
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (1995)
Cloud, Castle, Lake (2005)

Dramaturgy

"Wanderers" (1921)
"Death" (1923)
"Grandfather" (1923)
Ahasuerus (1923)
"Pole" (1924)
"The Tragedy of Mr. Morn" (1924)
"Man from the USSR" (1927)
"Event" (1938)
"The Invention of the Waltz" (1938)
"Mermaid"
"Lolita" (1974), (screenplay)

Poetry

Poetry(1916). Sixty eight poems in Russian.
Almanac: Two Ways(1918). Twelve poems in Russian.
Bunch(1922). Thirty-six poems in Russian (under the pseudonym V. Sirin).
mountain path(1923). One hundred twenty-eight poems in Russian (under the pseudonym V. Sirin).
Poems 1929-1951(1952). Fifteen poems in Russian.
Poems (1959)
Poems and Problems (1969)
Poetry(1979). Two hundred and twenty two poems in Russian

Documentary

Nikolay Gogol(English) Nikolai Gogol) (1944)
Notes on Prosody (1963)
Lectures on foreign literature(English) Lectures on Literature) (1980)
Lectures on Ulysses (1980)
Lectures on Russian literature(English) Lectures on Russian Literature) (1981)
Lectures on Don Quixote(English) Lectures on Don Quixote) (1983)

Autobiographies

"Curtain Raiser" (1949)
"Convincing Evidence" Conclusive Evidence: A Memoir) (1951)
"Other Shores" (1954)
"Memory, Speak" Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited) (1967)
“Nabokov about Nabokov and other things. Interviews, reviews, essays.” Compiled by Nikolai Melnikov. Moscow: Nezavisimaya Gazeta, (2002) ("Strong Opinions. Interviews, reviews, letters to editors." N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, (1973))
"The Nabokov-Wilson Letters Letters between Nabokov and Edmund Wilson" (1979)
"Correspondence with Sister" (1984)
"Carrousel" (1987)
"Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971." (2001)

Translations

Nikolka Peach. (fr. Colas Breugnon) (1922)
"Anna in Wonderland" (English) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) (1923)
"Three Russian Poets. (Selections from Pushkin, Lermontov and Tyutchev in New Translations by Vladimir Nabokov) (1944)
"A Hero of Our Time" (1958)
"The Song of Igor's Campaign. An Epic of the Twelfth Century" (1960)
« Verses and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry Selected and Translated by Vladimir Nabokov» (2008)

MOSCOW, October 13 - RIA Novosti. The Nobel Committee on Thursday awarded the 2016 Literature Prize to Bob Dylan. Last year, the Belarusian writer Svetlana Aleksievich was awarded the prize, although Haruki Murakami was considered the favorite. This year, the bookmakers predicted him to win again, but the choice of the Nobel Committee is unpredictable. RIA Novosti looked at which of the writers, certainly worthy of the award, never received it.

Lev Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature for several years in a row - from 1902 to 1906. Although his ideas and works were popular in the world, the writer did not receive a prize. The secretary of the Swedish Academy, Karl Virsen, stated that Tolstoy "condemned all forms of civilization and insisted in return for them to adopt a primitive way of life, divorced from all the establishments of high culture." Tolstoy later wrote a letter in which he asked not to be awarded the Nobel Prize.