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Nabokov Vladimir is about Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov. Childhood and youth Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg, in an old aristocratic family, rich and numerous. Although this happened on April 10, later the writer always celebrated his birthday on April 23. The boy became the first child of the famous lawyer, one of the first persons of the party of the cadets of Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov-and the daughter of the wealthy industrialist Elena Ivanovna Nabokova in the girlishness of Rukavishnikova-the Nabokovs were true Anglomans: the writer claimed to learn to speak, read and write in English before in Russian.

A lot of elegant and beautiful things from the St. Petersburg English store fell into the house, and the Britain Britain seemed to the boy a fairy -tale country. Nabokov’s childhood was serene-strong, and he recalled himself as a wayward, to the extreme of a spoiled child. It was these memories that helped Vladimir subsequently experience difficulties in a foreign land. All Nabokov’s children received a versatile home education, and at the age of 11, Vladimir was enrolled in the Tenishevsky school, who was at that time as advanced - good teachers who practiced non -standard approaches to training were taught here.

Nevertheless, in the memoirs the writer spoke very coolly about Alma Mater, considering learning an annoying obstacle to his hobbies books and butterflies. Vladimir acquired the passion for collecting these delicate creatures at the age of 7 and carried through his whole life: “Everything that I felt, surrounding the rectangle of the framed sunlight, obeyed one single passion.

My first thought, with the brilliance of the morning in the window, was about butterflies that this morning fell for me. ” At the age of 14, Nabokov wrote the first verses. The first love, later described by him in the novel “Mashenka” and in the fictionalized autobiography “Other Bereg” gave impetus to the emergence of new and new verses. Vladimir even released a poetic collection with his money, but later recalled the works that entered it as "extremely bad." Here Vladimir continued to compose poems, and at the beginning of the year another collection was released, written in collaboration with the former classmate A.

In general, the Crimea did not like the young man, everything here seemed to him a stranger. In April, the Nabokovs forever left Russia on the Greek ship "Nadezhda". Just a few weeks, the family lived in Greece, which also did not make an impression on Vladimir, causing only an entomological interest: “I devoted the two in Greece in Greece, demolishing the unchanging indignation of shepherd dogs, the search for the orange whitish, the binding of Heldrich, the Belyanka of the Cruper, because I got into the wrong part of the country.” By this time, the Nabokovs had no means of existence, except for the sale of jewelry that managed to remove from Russia.

In May, the family moved to England, the magical country of childhood Vladimir Nabokov. But reality disappointed and even severely treated the young student of the Trinity College of Cambridge University. The writer recalled that he was free and often cold. First, Vladimir studied at the Faculty of Biology, and then transferred to the philological one. The rest of the family, meanwhile, moved to Berlin.

In March, V. Nabokov died: during an attempt on the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government P. Milyukov, he closed it. Vladimir, who loved his father, was in despair. Having passed the final exams in Cambridge and receiving a bachelor's degree, he went to his mother in Germany. In e gg. Berlin became one of the centers of Russian emigration, where many Russian writers moved, among other things.

Nabokov entered the writer's Association “Verateno” and organized a literary circle “Brotherhood of the Round Table” together with his friend Struve, although he later claimed that he never understood why people joined the party and united in communities. Apparently, then the young writer than ever wanted to avoid loneliness in a foreign country. In those years, Vladimir Nabokov earned, teaching English and French in those years, gave lessons in the game of tennis, and was engaged in translations.

In - gg. Preserving the English humor of the original, Nabokov brought into the translation Russian household features and turns of speech, having received an independent work, called by him “Anya in Wonderland”. The family and personal life of Vladimir Nabokov at the beginning of the year Vladimir Nabokov met his cousin of his Cambridge friend Svetlana Romanovna Zivert and, trying to escape from loneliness and depression, made her an offer.

The engagement took place, which in the spring of the year had to be torn at the initiative of the bride’s parents - the groom seemed too poor and unsettled to them. In the spring of the year, Vladimir Nabokov created a family with Vera Evseevna Slonim -, whom he met at the charity emigrant ball. It was Vera later that became the prototype of Zina Mertz, the main character of the novel “Dar”, one of the best works by Nabokov, written in Russian.Vera Evseevna became for Vladimir Vladimirovich not only a wife, but also a friend, a like -minded person who supported the writer in everything.

Vladimir Nabokov considered his marriage as ideal. The couple had the only son Dmitry -, the future opera singer, a translator of his father’s works from Russian into English and publisher. Subsequently, the author spoke about him as an unsuccessful one, although the publication brought Nabokov some fame. Following Mashenka, a novel was followed by a brilliant chess player “Luzhin Protection”.

In the year, Nabokov wrote “Invitation to Execution”. This thin, ironic and very cruel novel was a response to recent events - Hitler came to power in Germany. With the seizure of power by the Nazis, anti -Semitic sentiments in the country steadily grew, and in the year Vera Nabokov was fired from work. At the beginning of the year, the Nabokovs were forced to leave Germany and through Czechoslovakia in the summer of the same year to move to France.

Here Nabokov finished work on the Roman "Gift". Having lived for three years, first on the Cote d'Azur, and then in Paris, in May, due to the approach of the Germans, the writer's family left Europe and sailed to the United States-it seemed that the entire biography of Vladimir Nabokov consisted of only crossings. Having moved to the ocean, in search of work and housing, Nabokovs and several cities were replaced here.

In the USA, Vladimir Vladimirovich began to write in English: “My personal tragedy-which cannot and should not touch anyone-is that I had to abandon natural speech, from my uninhabited, rich, infinitely obedient Russian syllable for the secondary grade of English.” The first English -speaking novel was the “true life of Sebastian Knight”, begun in Europe, then followed the novel “Under the sign of the illegitimate”.

Both of these works did not have commercial success, and for the life of Nabokov earned lectures on Russian and world literature at colleges and Cornell University, as well as work at the Harvard Zoological Museum. In the year, Nabokov ended his most famous novel “Lolita”, which he worked on since the end of the XG. The love story of an adult man for a minor girl turned out to be so scandalous that at first the American publishers refused to print a novel, and for the first time it was published in the year in France.

In the United States, Roman came out in the year - here he was persecuted for a long time, the arrests of circulations were interspersed with trials, but the glory of Vladimir Nabokov has already become world. Together with fame, financial well -being came. Having gotten, the Nabokovs returned to Europe in the year and settled in the Swiss resort town of Montreo. Here, a “pale fire” came out in the year-a novel-head-headed, in which the narrative is conducted on behalf of two different heroes.

The death and funeral in the year of Nabokov, carried away by catching butterflies on a high -mountain slope, fell and received serious bruises that caused a general deterioration in health. In the hospital, the writer continued to work on his last novel “Laura and its original”, which remained unfinished.

The death of Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov occurred on July 2 from a pulmonary infection. The writer is buried in a cemetery in a village of Claran near Montreyo, off the shore of Lake Geneva. In his will, he asked his wife to burn the manuscript of an unfinished novel, but neither Vera Evseevna nor the son of Dmitry began to do this. In the year, the novel “Laura and its original” went out of print in English and Russian.

Bibliography Bibliography of the works of Vladimir Nabokov is huge, so we list only its main works. Romanes: Ada, or the joy of passion. Look at the Harlequins!