Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov (72 page)

Nabokov, Elena (mother),
22–23
,
27–28
,
31
,
36–37
,
46
,
58
,
65
,
92–93
,
118
,
131
,
135
,
150–151

Nabokov, Elena (sister),
25
,
58
,
65
,
85
,
196–197
,
246
,
260
,
264
,
320
,
351

Nabokov, Kirill,
25
,
58
,
65
,
85
,
92
,
121–122
,
187
,
196–197
,
260
,
264
,
303
,
304
,
334

Nabokov, Nathalie,
135
,
165
,
264

Nabokov, Nicholas,
106
,
121–122
,
133–135
,
165–166
,
184
,
197
,
201–207
,
264
,
301–302
,
306
,
350–351

Nabokov, Olga,
25
,
49
,
58
,
65
,
85
,
190
,
192
,
264
,
350
.
See also
Petkevič, Olga Nabokov, Sergei,
25–26
,
33
,
37
,
40
,
49
,
56–59
,
65
,
68–70
,
75
,
84–86
,
93
,
106–107
,
147–148
,
151
,
160
,
163
,
187,
195–197
,
201
,
205–206
,
226
,
265–266
,
304–311

Nabokov, Véra

death of,
339
,
343

education of,
91

employment of,
121
,
128–129
,
155
,
167
,
170

marriage of,
94

role of,
167
,
199
,
212–214
,
218
,
246–247
,
333

views of,
16
,
115

as young girl,
88
,
91–92

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich.
See also specific titles

in America,
162–195
,
266–267
,
289–290

appointment with Solzhenitysn,
1–21
,
312–348

autobiography of,
28
,
33
,
223–227
,
259
,
265–266
,
288–313
,
319
,
325
,
343

background of,
13–16

baptism of,
24

birth of,
22

butterfly collecting,
33
,
160
,
163
,
173
,
179
,
191
,
200
,
223

childhood of,
13–14
,
22–44

Crimean exile of,
58–65

death of,
338–339

death of father and,
84
,
135–136

early years of,
13–14
,
22–65
,
84–110

education of,
38–42
,
68–70
,
74–75
,
84

employment of,
86–87
,
93–94
,
156
,
172–179
,
200–201
,
211
,
218–220

inheritance for,
49–50

later years of,
312–348

letter to Solzhenitsyn,
331

literary readings of,
106
,
121–122
,
129–132

on literature,
218–219
,
322–323

marriage of,
94

plays of,
88–89

postwar years,
196–217

pseudonym of,
74
,
87
,
92
,
116
,
130–131
,
157–158
,
161–162
,
332

returning to Europe,
262–268
,
292

romances of,
85–88
,
91–92
,
130–136

as teenager,
40
,
44–49
,
55
,
64–65

views on,
18–21
,
228–229
,
344–348

war years and,
45–65
,
183–187
,
190–195

writing style of,
3

as young man,
84–110

Nabokov, Vladimir Dmitrievich (father),
22–23
,
29–42
,
46–47
,
52–56
,
61–65
,
70–71
,
74–77
,
84

Nabokov’s Dozen
,
248

Nanook of the North
,
72

National Review, The
,
302

Nausea
,
222

“Negro Revolt, The,”
290

New Republic, The
,
5
,
166
,
177
,
209
,
270
,
279

New Russia
,
67–68

New Word
,
151

New York Herald Tribune
,
279

New York Post
,
251

New York Times, The
,
4
,
6
,
11
,
16
,
42
,
81
,
112
,
116
,
138
,
144
,
163
,
167
,
245
,
247
,
250
,
252
,
280
,
300–301
,
319
,
340
,
342

New York Times Book Review
,
222
,
248
,
324–325

New Yorker, The
,
4
,
167
,
221
,
224
,
231
,
233
,
235
,
242
,
245
,
255
,
259
,
265
,
325

Nicholas II, Tsar,
14
,
23
,
34
,
36
,
46
,
51

Nineteen Eighty-Four
,
210

Nobel Prize,
2
,
9–10
,
16
,
260
,
327
,
329
,
344

Noble, John,
280

Norcott, Miss,
25

Nosferatu
,
104

Nouvelle Revue Française
,
263

Nova Zembla
83
,
125
,
182
,
267
,
270
,
271–276
,
280–281
,
284–286
,
293
,
294
,
300
,
304
,
306
,
340–343
,
346
,
406
,
410
, 413.
See also
Zembla
NovyMir
,
277
,
279
,
281–283
,
298–300
,
328

nuclear tests,
273–276

Nuremberg Laws,
122
,
151
,
174

O

Oates, Joyce Carol,
5

Observer
,
333

Olympics,
123–124
,
128

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
,
8–10
,
15
,
278
,
281–284
,
297–298

Ophüls, Max,
184

Oppenheimer, Robert,
301

Ordyntsev, tutor,
25

Original of Laura, The
,
337

Orwell, George,
210

Oswald, Lee Harvey,
289

Owen, Wilfred,
45

Oxford and Cambridge Review, The
,
43

P

Pale Fire
,
5
,
17
,
262
,
268–270
,
274–276
,
279–287
,
292–296
,
304–306
,
310–311
,
340
,
343

Palme, Olof,
11

Panin, Countess Sofia,
165
,
369

Paris Soir
,
186

Parker, Dorothy,
248

Partisan Review
,
239

Pasternak, Boris,
6
,
97
,
252–254
,
260
,
336

People
,
336

Perutz, Max,
164

Peter the Great,
24–25

Petersburg
,
97

Petkevič, Boris,
190
,
192
,
264
,
350

Petkevič, Olga,
118
,
190
,
192
,
264–265
,
350
.
See also
Nabokov, Olga Petkevič, Rostislav,
118
,
135
,
196
,
201
,
264

Petkevič, Vladimir,
346–347

Petliura, Simon,
60

“Pickerel Pond, The,”
293

Plath, Sylvia,
297

Pnin
,
233–235
,
252–254
,
259
,
269
,
285
,
292–293
,
306
,
347

Poe, Edgar Allan,
317

poetry,
45–49
,
59–60
,
70
,
74
,
84
,
96–97
,
267–270

pogroms,
29–31
,
44
,
60–61
,
67
,
91
,
226
,
288

“Pole, The,”
88–89

Pope, Alexander,
270

Popular Science
,
340

postwar years,
196–217

“Potato Elf, The,”
104

Pound, Ezra,
6

Power, Tyrone,
89

Pravda
,
9
,
79
,
283
,
328

Prescott, Orville,
247
,
252

prison camps,
102–103
,
110–112.
See also
concentration camps
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The
,
31
,
69
,
194
,
257

Punch
,
25
purges,
12–13
,
126–128
,
138–141
,
192
,
208

Pushkin, Alexander,
14
,
63
,
89
,
218
,
220
,
254
,
267
,
290
,
295

Putin, Vladimir,
344
Pyatakov, Georgy,
80
,
128

R

Rachmaninoff, Sergei,
156
,
165

Rape
,
238

Rathenau, Walter,
72–73

Real Life of Sebastian Knight, The
,
147–149
,
158
,
178–179
,
182
,
191
,
214–215
,
236–237
,
257
,
262
,
265

“Refrigerator Awakes, The,”
182
,
294

Riefenstahl, Leni,
123