Vladimir Nabokov family papers

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Vladimir Nabokov family papers

1919-2006

Collection includes compositions, drafts, index card notes, galley proofs, family and business correspondence of the Nabokovs, chess problems, sketches, and address books of Vladimir and Véra Nabokov, and personal correspondence, computer files, laptops, and model trains of Dmitri Nabokov.

20 linear feet (17 boxes)

eng, Latn

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SNAC Resource ID: 11661880

Houghton Library

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Nabokov, Elena Ivanovna, 1876-1939

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Elena Ivanovna Nabokov (neé Rukavishnikov) was born into the family of one of the wealthiest merchants in Russia, Ivan Vasilyevich Rukavishnikov. He graduated from Moscow and Saint-Petrsburg Universities with degrees in engineering and law, before going into gold-mining business. Of all the children in the family, only two survived into adulthood, Elena, end her brother Vasily, making her one of the richest heiresses in Russia. Both children received excellent education. 1n 1897 she married Vla...

Nabokov, Dmitri, 1934-2012

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Dmitri Nabokov (1934-2012) was the only son of Vladimir and Véra Nabokov. He was а Harvard graduate, an American opera singer, a semi-professional race car driver and translator of Vladimir Nabokov's poems and novels from Russian into English and Italian....

Nabokov, Vladimir Dmitrievich, 1869-1922

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Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov (Russian: Влади́мир Дми́триевич Набо́ков; 21 July [O.S. 8 July] 1870 – 28 March 1922) was a Russian criminologist, journalist, and progressive statesman during the last years of the Russian Empire. He was the father of Russian-American author Vladimir Nabokov. A prominent member of the Constitutional Democratic Party (CD, the "Kadets"), Nabokov was elected to Russia's parliament, the First Duma. He was regarded as the most outspoken defender of Jewish rights in the ...