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This entry, transcribed by Sandy Klein from the online Wikipedia, is
assembled with good intentions and is fairly accurate. One serious
error, on which I have meant to comment in the past, regards the
tombstone pictured at the end of the article. It is that of my paternal
grandfather, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, who was assassinated in 1922
and is buried at the Russian cemetery in Tegel (Berlin), not that of my
father, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, who died in 1977and whose ashes
are buried at the cemetery in Clarens (Montreux, Switzerland). The
correct name and date of death are, in fact, clearly legible in the
photograph of the tomb.
With my thanks,
Dmitri Nabokov
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assembled with good intentions and is fairly accurate. One serious
error, on which I have meant to comment in the past, regards the
tombstone pictured at the end of the article. It is that of my paternal
grandfather, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, who was assassinated in 1922
and is buried at the Russian cemetery in Tegel (Berlin), not that of my
father, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, who died in 1977and whose ashes
are buried at the cemetery in Clarens (Montreux, Switzerland). The
correct name and date of death are, in fact, clearly legible in the
photograph of the tomb.
With my thanks,
Dmitri Nabokov
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm