Stalin White Sea-Baltic Canal, The, 113
Stein, Gertrude, 106
Steinbeck, John, 253
Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), 6
Stephens, Isabel, 259
Stotski, Andrey, 340
Straus, Roger, 236
Streicher, Julius, 258
Strike, 105
Strong Opinions, 336
Struve, Gleb, 150
Styron, William, 248
Such Is Life, 154
Sun, The, 167
Sunday Express, 241
Sunday Times, 241
T
Taboritski, Sergei, 76
Tarasov-Rodionov, Alexander, 113–114, 127
Tarsis, Valery, 315
Tchelitchew, Pavel, 201, 205
Thieme, Hermann, 106–107, 187
Thurston, Ernest Temple, 89–90
Time magazine, 5
Times of London, 43, 281, 340, 342
To the Finland Station, 169 180, 326
Tolstoy, Aleksey, 97, 113
Tolstoy, Alexandra, 155, 222
Tolstoy, Leo, 15, 32, 97, 155, 177, 219, 254
Travels in Two Democracies, 140
Tribune de Genève, 342
Trilling, Lionel, 248
Triple Thinkers, The, 293
Triumph of the Will, 123
Trotsky, Leon, 11, 42, 53–54, 61–62, 67, 80, 127, 128, 140, 168, 216
Turgenev, Ivan, 219
Tvardovsky, Alexander, 277, 279, 281–282
“Twelve, The,” 59, 82
“Twelve Who Are to Die, The,” 82
“Two, The,” 59
Tyrone Daily, 340
“Ultima Thule,” 180
Ulysses, 72, 220, 222, 242
Union of Soviet Writers, 8–9, 253, 277
Union Pacific, 166
“University Poem, The,” 96–97
Unquiet Ghost, The, 213
Updike, John, 5, 9
Upstate, 324
Ustinov, Peter, 268
V
Vanity Fair, 166, 168
“Vasily Shishkov,” 157, 208
Vietnam War, 7, 19, 288, 290, 292, 316, 332
vom Rath, Ernst, 145–146
von Traubenberg, Yuri Rausch, 38, 46, 64
Vonnegut, Kurt, 9
Voronyanskaya, Elizaveta, 10–11, 330
W
Wandering Jew, The, 89–90, 142–143, 148, 153, 223, 256–258, 317, 322, 365, 416. See also Agasfer; Ewige Jude, Der; “Eternal Jew, The”
War and Peace, 17, 177
Watts, Richard, 209
Wayne, John, 4
We, 210
Weill, Kurt, 350
Wells, George, 69
Wells, H. G., 25, 69, 82
What Is to Be Done?, 117–118
Whip Angels, The, 238
White, Katharine, 231, 235, 242, 325
White Sea Canal project, 112–113, 124, 299
White Thighs, 238
Wilhelm, Kaiser, 58
Wilson, Edmund, 125–126, 140–141, 166–170, 175–184, 191, 197–198, 201–206, 210–216, 220–222, 226, 237–239, 242, 246, 254–255, 291, 302, 323–326, 347
Wilson, Elena, 237–239, 291, 326
Window on Russia, A, 325
“Wood-Sprite, The,” 71
Wordsworth, William, 89
World War I, 45–65
World War II, 183–187, 190–195
World-Telegraph, 211
Zamyatin, Yevgeny, 210
Zelenski, Filip, 39
Zembla, 268–270, 276, 279–80, 284–287, 293–294, 306, 340, 406, 408, 410, 420. See also Nova Zembla, Kobaltana
Zetkin, Clara, 105
Vladimir Nabokov and his father in 1906, the year V. D. Nabokov was elected to the First Duma. Photo © the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov, used by permission of The Wylie Agency, LLC.
Vladimir Nabokov’s parents, Vladimir and Elena, at Vyra, 1900. Photo © the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov, used by permission of The Wylie Agency, LLC.
The house where Vladimir Nabokov was born, 47 Bolshaya Morskaya in St. Petersburg. Photo courtesy of Andrea Pitzer.
Sergei and Vladimir Nabokov at Vyra, 1906. The brothers were born less than a year apart. Photo © the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov, used by permission of The Wylie Agency, LLC.
V. D. Nabokov in uniform. Photo courtesy of Vladimir Petkevič.
Vladimir, Kirill, Olga, Sergei, and Elena Nabokov in Yalta, 1918, months before the family fled Russia. Photo © the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov, used by permission of The Wylie Agency, LLC.
Vladimir Nabokov and his mother, Elena, with her brother, Nabokov’s Uncle Ruka, 1907. Photo © the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov, used by permission of The Wylie Agency, LLC.
Nabokov’s cousin Yuri Rausch von Traubenberg in 1917, two years before his death. Photo © the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov, used by permission of The Wylie Agency, LLC.
Vladimir Lenin police photo, 1895.
Leon Trotsky, police photo, circa 1896.
Joseph Stalin, police photo, circa 1908.
Writer Maxim Gorky (second from right) and associates aboard the Gleb Bokii on their way to Solovki, June 1929. Photo courtesy of Tomasz Kizny Gulag collection.
Camp prisoners work on a section of the narrow-gauge railroad leading to the brickyard, Great Solovetsky Island, 1924-25. Photo courtesy of Tomasz Kizny Gulag collection.
Vladimir, Véra, and Dmitri Nabokov, Berlin, 1935, two years after Hitler’s rise to power. Photo © the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov, used by permission of The Wylie Agency, LLC.
Solzhenitsyn as an artillery captain during World War II. File/AP Photo.
Nabokov’s mother, Elena. Prague, 1931. Photo courtesy of Vladimir Petkevič.
Nabokov’s sister Olga with her son Rostislav in Prague near the start of World War II. At right, Evgenia Hofeld, the longtime companion of Nabokov’s mother. Photo courtesy of Vladimir Petkevič.
Boris Petkevič, the husband of Olga Nabokov, whose anti-Soviet activities reportedly gained Nazi support. Photo courtesy of Vladimir Petkevič.
U. S. Immigration and visa photos for Véra Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
Nicholas Nabokov
Carl Junghans
Sonia Slonim, 1934 to 1941.
The prisoners, hired workers, and indigenous Nenets of the Vaigach Expedition, 1930s. Photo courtesy of Tomasz Kizny Gulag collection.
The remains of the Vaigach Expedition today on the southernmost island of the Nova Zemblan archipelago. Photo by Tomasz Kizny.
SS staff at roll call, Neuengamme Concentration Camp. Photo courtesy of U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Prisoners behind the fence, Neuengamme Concentration Camp. Photo courtesy of U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Vladimir and Véra Nabokov at a Wellesley sorority house, 1942. Photo courtesy of the Wellesley College Archives.
Mary McCarthy and Edmund Wilson, Wellfleet, Mass., 1942. Photo courtesy of Sylvia Salmi/Special Collections, Vassar College Libraries.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1946. File/AP Photo.
Nabokov at Wellesley College, 1942. Photo by Sarah Collie Smith/courtesy of the Wellesley College Archives.
Vladimir and Véra Nabokov in Paris, 1959. Photo courtesy of Keystone-France via Getty Images.
Dmitri and Vladimir Nabokov, 1959. Photo courtesy of Keystone via Getty Images.
Kirill and Vladimir Nabokov with their sister Elena, Switzerland, 1959. Photo © the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov, used by permission of The Wylie Agency, LLC.
Nabokov’s nephew Rostislav, with wife Milena Svobodova, Prague, 1954. Photo courtesy of Vladimir Petkevič.
Vladimir Nabokov with his sister Elena and Véra’s sister, Sonia. Photo © the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov, used by permission of The Wylie Agency, LLC.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn in 1973, the year before his deportat
ion to the West. Photo courtesy of AP Photo.
Edmund Wilson at the New Yorker. Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson/via Magnum Photos.
Nabokov in the Montreux Palace Hotel, 1973. Photo courtesy of Walter Mori/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images.
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