Biography of 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.

Biography of vladimir nabokov

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