Eternal Youth

Vladimir Nabokov and the revolution


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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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Eternal YouthBy Nicholas Barrett