Emigré historians (1939)

Posts from This Journal “emigration” Tag

• The Encounter in Berlin (1923)

  You easily recognize Berlin in these lines: "under the chestnuts, along the canal..." They were written soon after Nabokov met the…

• "...what happened to my accomplices – were they acquitted or not?" (1928)

  The postcard from yesterday's entry, mailed in October 1928, had this message addressed to A. Aleksandridi in Tallinn, Estonia: "Hello…

• Vladimir Nabokov, The Room (1926)

  In July 1926, when he was moving from one room to another within the same Russian-owned boarding house on Nürnberger Strasse, the lonely…