Vladimir Nabokov and the revolution

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Eternal Youth

Nicholas Barrett

10 episodes

7 months ago

To understand a person you have to know what was happening in the world when they were twenty.

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To understand a person you have to know what was happening in the world when they were twenty.

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Vladimir Nabokov and the revolution

Eternal Youth

22 minutes 58 seconds

1 year ago

Vladimir Nabokov and the revolution

In 1919, the 20-year-old Vladimir Nabokov has fled from revolutionary Petrograd and decamped to the Crimea where he writes poetry, catalogues butterflies, plays chess and waits for Lenin's Red Army to arrive.

Bibliography:

Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

Collected Poems by Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years by Brian Boyd

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