Eternal Youth

Nabokov and the revolution

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Episode notes

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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