Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov (74 page)

Vladimir Nabokov and his father in 1906, the year V. D. Nabokov was elected to the First Duma.
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the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov, used by permission of The Wylie Agency, LLC
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Vladimir Nabokov’s parents, Vladimir and Elena, at Vyra, 1900.
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the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov, used by permission of The Wylie Agency, LLC
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The house where Vladimir Nabokov was born, 47 Bolshaya Morskaya in St. Petersburg.
Photo courtesy of Andrea Pitzer
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Sergei and Vladimir Nabokov at Vyra, 1906. The brothers were born less than a year apart.
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the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov, used by permission of The Wylie Agency, LLC
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V. D. Nabokov in uniform.
Photo courtesy of Vladimir Petkevič
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Vladimir, Kirill, Olga, Sergei, and Elena Nabokov in Yalta, 1918, months before the family fled Russia.
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the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov, used by permission of The Wylie Agency, LLC
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Vladimir Nabokov and his mother, Elena, with her brother, Nabokov’s Uncle Ruka, 1907.
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the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov, used by permission of The Wylie Agency, LLC
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Nabokov’s cousin Yuri Rausch von Traubenberg in 1917, two years before his death.
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the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov, used by permission of The Wylie Agency, LLC
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Vladimir Lenin police photo, 1895.

Leon Trotsky, police photo, circa 1896.

Joseph Stalin, police photo, circa 1908.

Writer Maxim Gorky (second from right) and associates aboard the
Gleb Bokii
on their way to Solovki, June 1929.
Photo courtesy of Tomasz Kizny Gulag collection
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Camp prisoners work on a section of the narrow-gauge railroad leading to the brickyard, Great Solovetsky Island, 1924-25.
Photo courtesy of Tomasz Kizny Gulag collection
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