Conquest, Robert, 340
Conrad, Joseph, 25
Contemporary Annals, 99, 116, 122, 137, 156
Cornell Daily Sun, 213
“Cornell Goes Bolshevist,” 211
Coughlin, Father, 139
Covici, Pascal, 230, 235
Crockett, Mrs. Campbell, 248
Cronkite, Walter, 13
Crown Jewels, 176, 269, 279, 285, 318, 410. See also Zembla
Cummings, E. E., 126, 141
D
Darkness at Noon, 209
Daudet, Alphonse, 25
de Beauvoir, Simone, 327
de Gaulle, Charles, 170
Defense, The, 97–99, 101, 125
Despair, 106–107, 125, 132, 149, 243, 245, 259, 285, 347
Diaghilev, Sergei, 68, 106, 201, 205, 206
Dickens, Charles, 25, 337
Doctor Zhivago, 252–255, 259–260, 292–293, 297
Don Quixote, 351
Donleavy, J. P., 238
Dos Passos, John, 127, 141
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 6, 15, 25, 219, 254, 257
“Double Talk,” 202, 221
Dreyfus, Alfred, 23, 384
Du Bois, W. E. B., 202
Duranty, Walter, 81, 112, 125–127, 140, 281, 350
E
“Easter,” 84
Einstein, Albert, 82, 119, 153
Eisenstein, Sergei, 105, 123
Eliot, T. S., 6, 293
Ellsberg, Daniel, 332
“Enchanter, The,” 156, 158, 230, 239
Encounter, 296–297, 300–301
Epstein, Jason, 236, 267
Esquire, 5
“Eternal Jew, The,” 142, 153, 186
“Eternal Road, The,” 142
Eugene Onegin, 78, 223, 230, 254, 267, 270, 289, 292–297, 324, 344
Evers, Medgar, 290
Ewige Jude, Der, 153
F
famine, 14, 34, 71, 100, 112, 350
Faulkner, William, 6
Feigin, Anna, 107, 129, 146, 163, 187
Ferdinand, Archduke Franz, 45
Field, Andrew, 318–321, 323, 337, 339
film productions, 3, 94, 104–105, 152, 252, 260, 266, 290
First Circle, The, 277, 329
First World War, 45–65
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 166, 168, 177
Flaubert, Gustave, 7, 220
Foley, Frank, 73
Fondaminsky, Ilya, 99, 106, 130, 132, 136, 160, 163, 175, 189, 194, 216
Forster, E. M., 297
Franco, Francisco, 209
Frank, Anne, 291
Frankfurter, Felix, 190
Freud, Sigmund, 7, 144, 164, 295
Frost, Robert, 293
Frumkin, Yakov, 160, 187
G
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 301
Gandhi, Mohandas, 72
Gellhorn, Peter, 164
Genet, Jean, 238
George, Lloyd, 60
Gide, André, 6, 141
Gift, The, 117–120, 136–137, 141, 239, 259, 285, 305, 320, 347
Girodias, Maurice, 238–239, 242, 246, 262
Glory (Podvig), 99–101
Godfather, The, 325
Godfrey, Arthur, 252
Goebbels, Joseph, 115, 152–153, 173, 185, 188, 245
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 89
Gogol, Nikolai, 191, 218
Gone with the Wind, 3, 248
Gordon, John, 241
Gorky, Maxim, 71, 80, 97, 112, 113, 127, 181, 299
Gorlin, Mikhail, 195
Gotz, Abram, 80, 128
Great Purge, 12–13, 126–128, 138–141, 192, 208
Great Terror: A Reassessment, 340
Greene, Graham, 9, 241, 246, 266
Grynszpan, Herschel, 145
Guadanini, Irina, 130–136
Gulag Archipelago, The, 2–4, 10–12, 17, 329–332, 340, 344–345
gulag, meaning of, 12, 103, 299
H
Hamlet, 208
Hanfstaengl, Ernst, 245
Happiness, 94
Harris, James, 252
Hearst, Patty, 11
Hemingway, Ernest, 6, 168, 177, 215
Hessen, George, 115–116, 118, 163, 187, 189
Hessen, Joseph, 32, 49, 116, 118, 163, 187, 189, 193
Himmler, Heinrich, 114
Hippius, Vladimir, 48–49
Hippius, Zinaida, 49, 160
Hirschfeld, Magnus, 115
Hochschild, Adam, 213
Hofeld, Evgenia, 65, 67, 92, 118, 135, 190, 196, 201, 246, 264
Hollander, John, 242
Holocaust, the, 208, 217, 221–222, 234–236, 249, 256, 259, 314, 319
Hoover, Herbert, 71
Hoover, J. Edgar, 171
I
“I Dwelt with Death,” 340
I Was a Slave in Russia, 280
Invitation to a Beheading, 120, 208, 262, 311
Ivanovna, Elena, 22–23. See also Nabokov, Elena (sister)
Ivanovna, Ruka, 37, 49
Ivinskaya, Olga, 253–254
Izvestia, 283
J
Jakobson, Roman, 302, 316, 346
James, Henry, 6
Jewels, 27, 41, 65, 67, 68, 86, 224, 304, 380. See also Crown Jewels
Jews, The, 69
Johnson, Lyndon B., 7, 290, 292, 302
Josselson, Michael, 302
Joyce, James, 72, 220, 222, 242
Junghans, Carl, 105, 107, 123–124, 152–154, 163, 171–173, 184–185, 203–204, 239, 244, 350
K
Kafka, Franz, 215, 220
Kalashnikov, Mikhail, 68–70, 214–215
Kamenev, Lev, 128
Karpovich, Mikhail, 166
Karski, Jan, 189–190
Keaton, Buster, 104
Keats, John, 220
Kennan, George (1845–1924, Russian Empire explorer and war correspondent), 43
Kennan, George F. (1904–2005, diplomat and historian), 12, 43, 204–206, 301, 303, 316–317
Kennedy, John F., 267, 278, 289, 291
Kerensky, Alexander, 54–56, 61, 82, 139, 140, 160, 176
Khodasevich, Vladislav, 130, 227
Khrushchev, Nikita, 8, 274–278, 280–283, 298–299, 315
King, Queen, Knave, 96
Kingdom by the Sea, The, 230. See also Lolita
Kipling, Rudyard, 25
Kirov, Sergei, 126
Kissinger, Henry, 11
Kobaltana, 410. See also Crown Jewels
Koestler, Arthur, 209–210
Korean War, 206–207
Kristallnacht, 146, 149, 185, 186
Kristol, Irving, 297
Krylenko, Nikolai, 128
Kubrick, Stanley, 3, 252, 260, 266, 290
Kuropatkin, General Aleksey, 28
L
La Bohème, 268
labor camps, 101–103, 110–111, 229–233. See also concentration camps
Lattimore, Owen, 213
Laughlin, James, 236
Laughter in the Dark, 201
L’Aurore, 263
Laval, Pierre, 188
Lawrence, D. H., 6
Lehmann, Willi, 73
Lenin, Vladimir, 16–17, 22, 35–36, 42, 52–53, 62, 67–69, 78, 102, 105, 112, 128, 140, 168–169, 180–181, 216, 220, 298. See also Ulyanov, Vladimir
Leonard, John, 337
L’Express, 263
Libération, 263
LIFE, 5
Likhachev, Dmitri, 299, 343
Literary Gazette, 277
L’Observateur littéraire, 263
Lolita (book), 2–5, 20, 156, 218, 231–260, 266, 290–293, 305, 317, 321–322, 347
Lolita (film), 3, 252, 260, 266, 290
Look at the Harlequins!, 321–323
Love’s Labour’s Lost, 351
Lowell, Robert, 297
M
MacLeish, Archibald, 204
Madame Bovary, 220
Malraux, André, 6
Manchester Guardian, 42
Mandelstam, Osip, 39, 127
Mann, Heinrich, 115
Mann, Thomas, 6, 115
Mansfield Park, 220, 237
Maramzin, Vladimir, 336
Marat, Jean-Paul, 90
Marinel, Maria, 156, 163, 173, 186
Marx, Groucho, 252
Marx, Karl, 115, 180
Marx Brothers, 104, 269
Mary (Mashenka), 94–96, 101
Massalsky, Lena, 146, 206. See also Slonim, Lena
“Matryona’s Home,” 297
McCarthy, Joseph, 7, 212–213
McCarthy, Mary, 5, 220, 239, 270, 279, 297
McCormick, Anne O’Hare, 144–145
Memoirs of Hecate County, The, 212, 214, 237, 247
“Metamorphosis,” 220
Miauton, Cécile, 33, 224
Mikhail, Grand Duke, 51
Miller, Arthur, 9
Milyukov, Paul, 52–53, 67, 73, 75, 78
Minton, Walter, 246
Mirsky, D. S., 126, 128
Montgomery, Robert, 206
Montreux Palace Hotel, 1, 7, 18, 268, 273, 288, 292–293, 334, 347, 356
movie productions, 3, 94, 104–105, 152, 252, 260, 266, 290
Mussolini, Benito, 142
N
Nabokov, Dmitri (grandfather), 28
Nabokov, Dmitri (son), 119, 128–132, 161, 246, 260, 268, 289, 339, 344, 349–350
Nabokov, Elena (mother), 22–23, 27–28, 31, 36–37, 46, 58, 65, 92–93, 118, 131, 135, 150–151
Nabokov, Elena (sister), 25, 58, 65, 85, 196–197, 246, 260, 264, 320, 351
Nabokov, Kirill, 25, 58, 65, 85, 92, 121–122, 187, 196–197, 260, 264, 303, 304, 334
Nabokov, Nathalie, 135, 165, 264
Nabokov, Nicholas, 106, 121–122, 133–135, 165–166, 184, 197, 201–207, 264, 301–302, 306, 350–351
Nabokov, Olga, 25, 49, 58, 65, 85, 190, 192, 264, 350. See also Petkevič, Olga
Nabokov, Sergei, 25–26, 33, 37, 40, 49, 56–59, 65, 68–70, 75, 84–86, 93, 106–107, 147–148, 151, 160, 163, 187, 195–197, 201, 205–206, 226, 265–266, 304–311
Nabokov, Véra
death of, 339, 343
education of, 91
employment of, 121, 128–129, 155, 167, 170
marriage of, 94
role of, 167, 199, 212–214, 218, 246–247, 333
views of, 16, 115
as young girl, 88, 91–92
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich. See also specific titles
in America, 162–195, 266–267, 289–290
appointment with Solzhenitysn, 1–21, 312–348
autobiography of, 28, 33, 223–227, 259, 265–266, 288–313, 319, 325, 343
background of, 13–16
baptism of, 24
birth of, 22
butterfly collecting, 33, 160, 163, 173, 179, 191, 200, 223
childhood of, 13–14, 22–44
Crimean exile of, 58–65
death of, 338–339
death of father and, 84, 135–136
early years of, 13–14, 22–65, 84–110
education of, 38–42, 68–70, 74–75, 84
employment of, 86–87, 93–94, 156, 172–179, 200–201, 211, 218–220
inheritance for, 49–50
later years of, 312–348
letter to Solzhenitsyn, 331
literary readings of, 106, 121–122, 129–132
on literature, 218–219, 322–323
marriage of, 94
plays of, 88–89
post-war years, 196–217
pseudonym of, 74, 87, 92, 116, 130–131, 157–158, 161–162, 332
returning to Europe, 262–268, 292
romances of, 85–88, 91–92, 130–136
as teenager, 40, 44–49, 55, 64–65
views on, 18–21, 228–229, 344–348
war years and, 45–65, 183–187, 190–195
writing style of, 3
as young man, 84–110
Nabokov, Vladimir Dmitrievich (father), 22–23, 29–42, 46–47, 52–56, 61–65, 70–71, 74–77, 84
Nabokov’s Dozen, 248
Nanook of the North, 72
National Review, The, 302
Nausea, 222
“Negro Revolt, The,” 290
New Republic, The, 5, 166, 177, 209, 270, 279
New Russia, 67–68
New Word, 151
New York Herald Tribune, 279
New York Post, 251
New York Times, The, 4, 6, 11, 16, 42, 81, 112, 116, 138, 144, 163, 167, 245, 247, 250, 252, 280, 300–301, 319, 340, 342
New York Times Book Review, 222, 248, 324–325
New Yorker, The, 4, 167, 221, 224, 231, 233, 235, 242, 245, 255, 259, 265, 325
Nicholas II, Tsar, 14, 23, 34, 36, 46, 51
Nineteen Eighty-Four, 210
Nobel Prize, 2, 9–10, 16, 260, 327, 329, 344
Noble, John, 280
Norcott, Miss, 25
Nosferatu, 104
Nouvelle Revue Française, 263
Nova Zembla 83, 125, 182, 267, 270, 271–276, 280–281, 284–286, 293, 294, 300, 304, 306, 340–343, 346, 406, 410, 413. See also Zembla
NovyMir, 277, 279, 281–283, 298–300, 328
nuclear tests, 273–276
Nuremberg Laws, 122, 151, 174
O
Oates, Joyce Carol, 5
Observer, 333
Olympics, 123–124, 128
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, 8–10, 15, 278, 281–284, 297–298
Ophüls, Max, 184
Oppenheimer, Robert, 301
Ordyntsev, tutor, 25
Original of Laura, The, 337
Orwell, George, 210
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 289
Owen, Wilfred, 45
Oxford and Cambridge Review, The, 43
P
Pale Fire, 5, 17, 262, 268–270, 274–276, 279–287, 292–296, 304–306, 310–311, 340, 343
Palme, Olof, 11
Panin, Countess Sofia, 165, 369
Paris Soir, 186
Parker, Dorothy, 248
Partisan Review, 239
Pasternak, Boris, 6, 97, 252–254, 260, 336
People, 336
Perutz, Max, 164
Peter the Great, 24–25
Petersburg, 97
Petkevič, Boris, 190, 192, 264, 350
Petkevič, Olga, 118, 190, 192, 264–265, 350. See also Nabokov, Olga
Petkevič, Rostislav, 118, 135, 196, 201, 264
Petkevič, Vladimir, 346–347
Petliura, Simon, 60
“Pickerel Pond, The,” 293
Plath, Sylvia, 297
Pnin, 233–235, 252–254, 259, 269, 285, 292–293, 306, 347
Poe, Edgar Allan, 317
poetry, 45–49, 59–60, 70, 74, 84, 96–97, 267–270
pogroms, 29–31, 44, 60–61, 67, 91, 226, 288
“Pole, The,” 88–89
Pope, Alexander, 270
Popular Science, 340
post-war years, 196–217
“Potato Elf, The,” 104
Pound, Ezra, 6
Power, Tyrone, 89
Pravda, 9, 79, 283, 328
Prescott, Orville, 247, 252
prison camps, 102–103, 110–112. See also concentration camps
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The, 31, 69, 194, 257
Punch, 25 purges, 12–13, 126–128, 138–141, 192, 208
Pushkin, Alexander, 14, 63, 89, 218, 220, 254, 267, 290, 295
Putin, Vladimir, 344 Pyatakov, Georgy, 80, 128
R
Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 156, 165
Rape, 238
Rathenau, Walter, 72–73
Real Life of Sebastian Knight, The, 147–149, 158, 178–179, 182, 191, 214–215, 236–237, 257, 262, 265
“Refrigerator Awakes, The,” 182, 294
Riefenstahl, Leni, 123
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 144, 179, 189, 245
Rosov, Samuil, 61, 68
Rothmund, Heinrich, 145
Rul (The Rudder), 70–71, 74–75, 77, 82, 84, 91, 281, 342
“Russian Spoken Here,” 87
S
Safire, William, 331
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 6, 9, 215, 222–223, 327
Scammell, Michael, 14
“Scenes from the Life of a Double Monster,” 265–266
Schiff, Stacy, 251, 410
Schlesinger, Arthur, 301
Schweitzer, Albert, 275
Scott, Robert, 89
Second World War, 183–187, 190–195
Shabelski-Bork, Peter, 76
Shackleton, Ernest, 182
Shakespeare, William, 14, 351
Shakhovskoy, John, 133
Shakhovskoy, Zinaida, 190, 206, 263–264
Shch-854, 278. See also One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 89
Shemyakin, Mikhail, 345
Shklovsky, Viktor, 113
Sholokhov, Mikhail, 8
Shrayer, Maxim D., 221
Shulgin, Lyussya, 46, 48–50, 60, 63, 70, 94–96
Siewert, Svetlana, 70, 85, 86
“Signs and Symbols,” 221
Sikorski, Elena, 351 Sirin, Vladimir, 74, 87, 92, 116, 130–131, 161–162, 332. See also Nabokov, Vladimir
Sitwell, Edith, 106
Slonim, Evsei, 88
Slonim, Lena, 91, 146, 190, 206, 264, 350. See also Massalsky, Lena
Slonim, Marc, 210
Slonim, Sonia, 91, 104–107, 134, 146, 154, 163, 170–172, 184–185, 203–205, 239, 244–246, 263–264, 350
Slonim, Véra, 88, 91, 93–94. See also Nabokov, Véra
Socialist Revolutionaries, 35, 42, 57–8, 60, 72, 340, 342, 373, 380
trial of, 78–83, 87, 112, 126, 281, 332, 337. See also Kobaltana
Solus Rex, 158–159, 267
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander. See also
specific titles
appointment with Nabokov, 1–21, 312–348
arrest of, 11, 200, 227
background of, 14–16
birth of, 64
childhood of, 14
death of, 345
deportation of, 11–13, 331
early years of, 14, 113
goal of, 276–278, 281–283
isolation of, 297–300
in labor camps, 229–233
letter to, 331
on Nabokov, 344
Nobel Prize for, 2, 9–10, 16, 327, 329, 344
in prison, 2, 11, 227–228
speech by, 10
views on, 16, 19–21, 326–329, 332–334, 344–345
war and, 176–177, 198–200
writing style of, 3
Solzhenitsyn, Natalia (née Reshetovskaya, first wife of Solzhenitsyn) 199, 230, 277, 329
Solzhenitsyn, Natalia (née Svetlova, second wife of Solzhenitsyn) 2, 334–335
Soviet Writers Union, 8–9, 253, 277
Spark, Muriel, 9
Spartacus, 268
Speak, Memory, 28, 33, 288, 304–313, 319, 325, 343
Spender, Stephen, 297
Stalin, Joseph, 7–8, 35, 51, 102, 126–127, 138–140, 175–176, 190, 210, 216–217, 233