Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov (73 page)

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano,
144
,
179
,
189
,
245

Rosov, Samuil,
61
,
68

Rothmund, Heinrich,
145

Rul (The Rudder)
,
70–71
,
74–75
,
77
,
82
,
84
,
91
,
281
,
342

“Russian Spoken Here,”
87

S

Safire, William,
331

Sartre, Jean-Paul,
6
,
9
,
215
,
222–223
,
327

Scammell, Michael,
14

“Scenes from the Life of a Double Monster,”
265–266

Schiff, Stacy,
251
,
410

Schlesinger, Arthur,
301

Schweitzer, Albert,
275

Scott, Robert,
89

Second World War,
183–187
,
190–195

Shabelski-Bork, Peter,
76

Shackleton, Ernest,
182

Shakespeare, William,
14
,
351

Shakhovskoy, John,
133

Shakhovskoy, Zinaida,
190
,
206
,
263–264

Shch-854
,
278
.
See also One Day in the
Life of Ivan Denisovich

Shelley, Percy Bysshe,
89

Shemyakin, Mikhail,
345

Shklovsky, Viktor,
113

Sholokhov, Mikhail,
8

Shrayer, Maxim D.,
221

Shulgin, Lyussya,
46
,
48–50
,
60
,
63
,
70
,
94–96

Siewert, Svetlana,
70
,
85
,
86

“Signs and Symbols,”
221

Sikorski, Elena,
351
Sirin, Vladimir,
74
,
87
,
92
,
116
,
130–131
,
161–162
,
332
.
See also
Nabokov, Vladimir Sitwell, Edith,
106

Slonim, Evsei,
88

Slonim, Lena,
91
,
146
,
190
,
206
,
264
,
350
.
See also
Massalsky, Lena Slonim, Marc,
210

Slonim, Sonia,
91
,
104–107
,
134
,
146
,
154
,
163
,
170–172
,
184–185
,
203–205
,
239
,
244–246
,
263–264
,
350

Slonim, Véra,
88
,
91
,
93–94.
See also
Nabokov, Véra Socialist Revolutionaries,
35
,
42
,
57–8
,
60
,
72
,
340
,
342
,
373
,
380

trial of,
78–83
,
87
,
112
,
126
,
281
,
332
,
337
.
See also
Kobaltana
Solus Rex
,
158–159
,
267

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander.
See also

specific titles

appointment with Nabokov,
1–21
,
312–348

arrest of,
11
,
200
,
227

background of,
14–16

birth of,
64

childhood of,
14

death of,
345

deportation of,
11–13
,
331

early years of,
14
,
113

goal of,
276–278
,
281–283

isolation of,
297–300

in labor camps,
229–233

letter to,
331

on Nabokov,
344

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

in prison,
2
,
11
,
227–228

speech by,
10

views on,
16
,
19–21
,
326–329
,
332–334
,
344–345

war and,
176–177
,
198–200

writing style of,
3

Solzhenitsyn, Natalia (née Reshetovskaya, first wife of Solzhenitsyn)
199
,
230
,
277
,
329

Solzhenitsyn, Natalia (née Svetlova, second wife of Solzhenitsyn)
2
,
334–335

Soviet Writers Union,
8–9
,
253
,
277

Spark, Muriel,
9

Spartacus
,
268

Speak, Memory
,
28
,
33
,
288
,
304–313
,
319
,
325
,
343

Spender, Stephen,
297

Stalin, Joseph,
7–8
,
35
,
51
,
102
,
126–127
,
138–140
,
175–176
,
190
,
210
,
216–217
,
233

Stalin White Sea-Baltic Canal, The
,
113

Stein, Gertrude,
106

Steinbeck, John,
253

Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle),
6

Stephens, Isabel,
259

Stotski, Andrey,
340

Straus, Roger,
236

Streicher, Julius,
258

Strike
,
105

Strong Opinions
,
336

Struve, Gleb,
150

Styron, William,
248

Such Is Life
,
154

Sun, The
,
167

Sunday Express
,
241

Sunday Times
,
241

T

Taboritski, Sergei,
76

Tarasov-Rodionov, Alexander,
113–114
,
127

Tarsis, Valery,
315

Tchelitchew, Pavel,
201
,
205

Thieme, Hermann,
106–107
,
187

Thurston, Ernest Temple,
89–90

Time
magazine,
5

Times of London
,
43
,
281
,
340
,
342

To the Finland Station
,
169
180
,
326

Tolstoy, Aleksey,
97
,
113

Tolstoy, Alexandra,
155
,
222

Tolstoy, Leo,
15
,
32
,
97
,
155
,
177
,
219
,
254

Travels in Two Democracies
,
140

Tribune de Genève
,
342

Trilling, Lionel,
248

Triple Thinkers, The
,
293

Triumph of the Will
,
123

Trotsky, Leon,
11
,
42
,
53–54
,
61–62
,
67
,
80
,
127
,
128
,
140
,
168
,
216

Turgenev, Ivan,
219

Tvardovsky, Alexander,
277
,
279
,
281–282

“Twelve, The,”
59
,
82

“Twelve Who Are to Die, The,”
82

“Two, The,”
59

Tyrone Daily
,
340

U

“Ultima Thule,”
180

Ulysses
,
72
,
220
,
222
,
242

Union of Soviet Writers,
8–9
,
253
,
277

Union Pacific
,
166

“University Poem, The,”
96–97

Unquiet Ghost, The
,
213

Updike, John,
5
,
9

Upstate
,
324

Ustinov, Peter,
268

V

Vanity Fair
,
166
,
168

“Vasily Shishkov,”
157
,
208

Vietnam War,
7
,
19
,
288
,
290
,
292
,
316
,
332

vom Rath, Ernst,
145–146

von Traubenberg, Yuri Rausch,
38
,
46
,
64

Vonnegut, Kurt,
9

Voronyanskaya, Elizaveta,
10–11
,
330

W

Wandering Jew, The
,
89–90
,
142–143
,
148
,
153
,
223
,
256–258
,
317
,
322
,
365
,
416
.
See also Agasfer; Ewige Jude, Der;
“Eternal Jew, The”

War and Peace
,
17
,
177

Watts, Richard,
209

Wayne, John,
4

We
,
210

Weill, Kurt,
350

Wells, George,
69

Wells, H. G.,
25
,
69
,
82

What Is to Be Done?
,
117–118

Whip Angels, The
,
238

White, Katharine,
231
,
235
,
242
,
325

White Sea Canal project,
112–113
,
124
,
299

White Thighs
,
238

Wilhelm, Kaiser,
58

Wilson, Edmund,
125–126
,
140–141
,
166–170
,
175–184
,
191
,
197–198
,
201–206
,
210–216
,
220–222
,
226
,
237–239
,
242
,
246
,
254–255
,
291
,
302
,
323–326
,
347

Wilson, Elena,
237–239
,
291
,
326

Window on Russia, A
,
325

“Wood-Sprite, The,”
71

Wordsworth, William,
89

World War I,
45–65

World War II,
183–187
,
190–195

World-Telegraph
,
211

Z

Zamyatin, Yevgeny,
210

Zelenski, Filip,
39

Zembla,
268–270
,
276
,
279–80
,
284–287
,
293–294
,
306
,
340
,
406
,
408
,
410
,
420
.
See also
Nova Zembla, Kobaltana Zetkin, Clara,
105