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He was regarded as the most outspoken defender of Jewish rights in the Russian Empire, continuing in a family tradition that had been led by his own father, Dmitry Nabokov, who as Justice Minister under Tsar Alexander II successfully opposed anti-semitic measures being passed in the government.
Vladimir Dmitrievich is the sixth child of Dmitri Nikolaevich Nabokov (b. 1827), Minister of Justice (1878-1885) under Alexander II and Alexander III, and Maria Ferdinandovna, nee Baroness von Korff (b. 1842). The Nabokovs are reputed to descend from a fourteenth-century Tartar prince, Nabok Murza.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Набоков [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ nɐˈbokəf] ⓘ; 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899 – 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (Владимир Сирин), was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist.
Nabokov’s father, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov (1870-1922), an avid theater- and opera-goer, notes that “Rubinstein’s Demon was very popular” on the stage of St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theater (“Teatral’nyy Peterburg,” Teatr i zhizn’ 8, March 1922, 10), where he often took Vladimir and the other children; in June 1960 Nabokov ...
Apr 23, 2014 · Their father, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, was an intellectual and one of the founders of the Constitutional Democratic Party, which stood against the 1917 Revolution. In exile in Berlin,...
Jun 28, 2024 · Vladimir Nabokov was a Russian-born American novelist and critic and the foremost of the post-1917 emigre authors. He wrote in both Russian and English, and his best works, including Lolita (1955), feature stylish, intricate literary effects.
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VLADIMIR DMITRIEVICH NABOKOV was, like S. I. Shidlovsky, connected with the reforming Ministry of Loris-Melikov at the end of the reign of Alexander II. through his father, who was then Minister of Justice. One of his brothers was Pro-
