504.
| Nadezhda Mandelstam,
Vospominaniya
(Moskva: Soglasie, 1999), xviii.
|
505.
| Nadezhda Mandelstam,
Hope Against Hope
, vi.
|
506.
| Carl Proffer,
The Widows of Russia and Other Writings
, 38.
|
507.
| Nadezhda Mandelstam,
Hope Against Hope
, xi.
|
508.
| Osip Mandelstam,
The Complete Critical Prose and Letters
, ed. and trans. Jane Gary Harris (Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1979), 570.
|
509.
| Osip i Nadezhda Mandelshtamy v rasskazah sovremennikov
, 515.
|
510.
| Ibid., 395–96.
|
511.
| Ibid., 497.
|
512.
| Ibid., 504.
|
513.
| Complete Poetry of Osip Emilievich Mandelstam
, trans. Burton Raffel and Alla Burago (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1973), 211.
|
514.
| Nadezhda Mandelstam,
Kniga tret´ya
, 310.
|
515.
| For general background information on Véra, I am indebted to Brian Boyd,
Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990),
Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991) and to Stacy Schiff,
Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)
(New York: Random House, 1999).
|
516.
| The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov
, ed. Vladimir Alexandrov (New York: Garland, 1995), xxxiii.
|
517.
| Dmitry Volkogonov,
Lenin: A New Biography
(New York: Free Press, 1994), 238.
|
518.
| Stacy Schiff,
Véra
, 29.
|
519.
| Brian Boyd,
Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years
, 214.
|
520.
| Andrew Field,
Nabokov: His Life in Part
(New York: Viking, 1977), 178.
|
521.
| Ibid., 173.
|
522.
| Stacy Schiff,
Véra
, 3.
|
523.
| Brenda Maddox,
Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988), 25.
|
524.
| Stacy Schiff,
Véra
, 11.
|
525.
| Ibid., 10.
|
526.
| Alexander Bahrah,
Bunin v halate
(Moskva: Soglasie, 2000), 120–21.
|
527.
| Stacy Schiff,
Véra
, 12.
|
528.
| Brian Boyd,
Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years
, 239.
|
529.
| Stacy Schiff,
Véra
, 62.
|
530.
| Ibid., 46.
|
531.
| Ibid., 42.
|
532.
| Ibid., 56.
|
533.
| Ibid., 52.
|
534.
| Andrew Field,
Nabokov: His Life in Part
, 172.
|
535.
| Stacy Schiff,
Véra
, 57.
|
536.
| Brian Boyd,
Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years
, 291.
|
537.
| Ibid., 343.
|
538.
| Ibid., 396.
|
539.
| Stacy Schiff,
Véra
, 74.
|
540.
| Andrew Field,
Nabokov: His Life in Part
, 200.
|
541.
| Vladimir Nabokov,
Speak, Memory
(New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1966), 295.
|
542.
| Brian Boyd,
Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years
, 408.
|
543.
| Andrew Field,
Nabokov: His Life in Part
, 198.
|
544.
| Ibid., 206.
|
545.
| Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters: 1940–1977
, ed. Dmitry Nabokov (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989), 23–24.
|
546.
| Stacy Schiff,
Véra
, 85.
|
547.
| Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters
, 19–20.
|
548.
| In Germany the Nabokovs and other émigrés from Bolshevik Russia received temporary passports. These had expired.
|
549.
| Diminutive from Dmitry.
|
550.
| Nina Berberova,
The Italics Are Mine
(New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969), 324.
|
551.
| Stacy Schiff,
Véra
, 98.
|
552.
| Brian Boyd,
Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years
, 421.
|
553.
| Vladimir Nabokov,
Speak, Memory
, 302.
|
554.
| Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters
, 30.
|
555.
| Vladimir Nabokov,
Speak, Memory
, 292.
|
556.
| Stacy Schiff,
Véra
, 108.
|
557.
| Ibid., 179.
|
558.
| Brian Boyd,
Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years
, 83.
|
559.
| Stacy Schiff,
Véra
, 120.
|
560.
| The Nabokov–Wilson Letters: Correspondence between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson 1940–1971
, ed. Simon Karlinsky (New York: Harper&Row, 1979), 121.
|
561.
| Stacy Schiff,
Véra
, 167.
|
562.
| Ibid., 131.
|
563.
| Ibid., 189.
|
564.
| Ibid., 187.
|
565.
| Ibid., 151.
|
566.
| Ibid., 184.
|
567.
| Ibid., 163.
|
568.
| Ibid., 171.
|
569.
| Brian Boyd,
Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years
, 222.
|
570.
| Stacy Schiff,
Véra
, 171.
|
571.
| Brian Boyd,
Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years
, 221.
|
572.
| Stacy Schiff,
Véra
, 220.
|
573.
| Ibid., 221.
|
574.
| Ibid., 200.
|
575.
| Christopher Hitchens,
Arguably: Essays
(Toronto: McLelland & Stewart, 2011), 73-74.
|
576.
| Vladimir Nabokov,
Perepiska s sestroi
(Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1985), 69. Translation is by the author.
|
577.
| Vladimir Nabokov,
Poems and Problems
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970), 155.
|
578.
| Brian Boyd,
Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years
, 201.
|
579.
| Vladimir Nabokov,
Poems and Problems
, 175.
|
580.
| Stacy Schiff,
Véra
, 214.
|
581.
| VN letter to Elena Sikorskaya, September 29, 1953.
|
582.
| VN letter to Wilson, July 30, 1954.
|
583.
| Wilson’s letter to VN, November 30, 1954.
|
584.
| Brian Boyd,
Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years
, 264.
|
585.
| Ibid., 267.
|
586.
| Stacy Schiff,
Véra
, 201.
|
587.
| Ibid., 206.
|
588.
| Brian Boyd,
Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years
, 269.
|
589.
| Stacy Schiff,
Véra
, 213.
|
590.
| Brian Boyd,
Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years
, 301.
|
591.
| Ibid., 365.
|
592.
| VN letter to Elena Sikorsky, May 24, 1959.
|
593.
| Stacy Schiff,
Véra
, 243.
|
594.
| Brian Boyd,
Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years
, 371.
|
595.
| Ibid., 373.
|
596.
| Stacy Schiff,
Véra
, 343.
|
597.
| Brian Boyd,
Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years
, 501.
|
598.
| Stacy Schiff,
Véra
, 269.
|
599.
| Martin Amis,
Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions
(London: Jonathan Cape, 1993), 119.
|
600.
| Stacy Schiff,
Véra
, 254.
|
601.
| Ibid., 255–56.
|
602.
| Ibid., 259.
|
603.
| Ibid., 271.
|
604.
| Brian Boyd,
Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years
, 459.
|
605.
| Ibid., 568.
|
606.
| Ibid., 570.
|
607.
| Stacy Schiff,
Véra
, 297.
|
608.
| Brian Boyd,
Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years
, 471.
|
609.
| Stacy Schiff,
Véra
, 53.
|
610.
| Ibid.
|
611.
| Ibid., 277.
|
612.
| Ibid., 296.
|
613.
| Andrew Field,
Nabokov: His Life in Part
, 180.
|
614.
| Ibid., 176.
|
615.
| Andrew Field,
The Life and Art of Vladimir Nabokov
(New York: Crown, 1977), 96.
|
616.
| Andrew Field,
Nabokov: His Life in Part
, 177.
|
617.
| Ibid., 180.
|
618.
| Stacy Schiff,
Véra
, 297–98.
|
619.
| Ibid., 299.
|
620.
| Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters
, 546.
|
621.
| Stacy Schiff,
Véra
, 360.
|
622.
| Ibid., 365.
|
623.
| Martin Amis,
Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions
, 117, 115.
|
624.
| Dnevnik Eleny Bulgakovoi
, eds. L. Yanovskaya, V. Losev (Moskva: Knizhnaya palata, 1990), 16. Unless otherwise specified, all citations in this chapter come from this source. Translation is by the author.
|
625.
| Lydia Yanovskaia,
Zapiski o Mikhaile Bulgakove
(Holon, Israel: Publishers “Moria,” 1997), 347–49. Translation is by the author.
|
626.
| Mikhail Bulgakov,
The Master and Margarita
, trans. Michael Glenny (New York: Harper & Row, 1967), 215.
|
627.
| http://moscowia.su/images/ris2/11.htm
|
628.
| International relief operation was organized by Fridtjof Nansen, a Norwegian explorer, appointed a commissioner in the League of Nations in 1921. America sent the largest flow of aid: ARA, American Relief Administration, fed 11 million people each day.
|
629.
| The church was destroyed during the Soviet anti-religious campaign.
|
630.
| J.A.E. Curtis,
Mikhail Bulgakov: A Life in Letters and Diaries
(London: Bloomsbury, 1991), 69.
|
631.
| Stalin corresponded with Vladimir Bill-Belotserkovsky, author of propaganda plays.
|
632.
| Mikhail Bulgakov: A Life in Letters and Diaries
, 70.
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