Vladimir nabokov biographical information
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Vladimir Nabokov biography
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg, Russia on April 22, 1899, and was the oldest of 5 children. His father, Vladimir Dmitrievich, was a politician and his mother, Elena Ivanovna, was the granddaughter of a millionaire and an heiress. Nabokov was the favorite of his siblings and grew up in the wealthy world of Russian aristocracy. Despite growing up in the tumultuous time surrounding the Russian Revolution, Nabokov lived a comfortable childhood and would spend many summers at the idyllic country mansion in Vyra, where he first discovered his love of butterflies.
The Russian Revolution— the 1917 revolution that saw the overthrow of the imperial government. The government was taken over bygd the Bolshevik party. The Russian Revolution saw the conversion of Russia from a monarchy to a communist nation known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). As Nabokov was part of the Russian ari
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Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov (April 22, 1899 – July 2, 1977) was a Russian-Americanwriter. He wrote his first books in Russian, and after he moved to the United States, he wrote in English. His most famous book is Lolita, but others have also become famous, such as Pnin, Pale Fire, and Ada or Ardor.
Nabokov was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, the first of five children. In 1919, he and his family went to Europe. In 1945, he became an American citizen. He died in Montreux, Switzerland.
Life
[change | change source]Nabokov's father was a lawyer and politician. As a child, Vladimir learned Russian, English, and French. After the October Revolution, the family moved a few times, but settled in Berlin in 1920. Two years later, his father was shot and killed by mistake, because he had blocked the person the gunman was trying to murder. His mother and sister moved to Prague, but Vladimir stayed in Berlin. He wrote for other Russians who had left Russia to live th
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Biography Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899 – 1977), Russian and American novelist, short-story writer, poet, translator, and lepidopterist was born into a wealthy St. Petersburg family. He grew up trilingual from childhood, studied at the Tenishev School. Nabokov’s father, Vladimir Dmitrievich, played a prominent role in the provisional government. In November 1917 the Nabokovs left for Crimea and in 1919, the family fled to England. Vladimir Nabokov enrolled in Cambridge. While Vladimir Nabokov studied at Cambridge where he took a degree in Slavic and Roman Literatures, his family settled down in Berlin where Nabokov’s father became an editor of the emigre newspaper The Rudder (Rul’). As Yulia Trubikhina 2019) noted, “In the summer of 1922, Gamaiun, a Russian publishing company in Berlin, commissioned the twenty-three-year-old Nabokov to translate Alice in Wonderland into Russian.” A brilliant translation entitled Anya v st