Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0006173, Sat, 13 Oct 2001 10:25:35 -0700

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Query: Sources for Fyodor's father in The Gift (fwd)
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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 18:17:00 -0700 (PDT)^^From: Rita <riteid@yahoo.com>
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU

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> Dear little Nabokovs and big Nabokovians!
> I have a question concerning sources V.Nabokov used
> for composing a chapter about a father of Fedor
> Konstantinovich Godunov-Cherdyntzev in The Gift.
> Nabokov himself mentions Sven Hedin, a famous
> Swedish
> explorer (a father of Fedor Konstantinovich even
> meets
> Sven Hedin and talks to him about Lhassa at dinner).
> I heard that Nabokov was browsing through many books
> on explorers in Berlin libraries preparing to
> describe
> Konstantin G-Ch-v's entomological expeditions to
> Asia.
>
> Does anyone know which books? Is there any research
> regarding Nabokov's "sources"?
> Thank you very much in advance.
>
> Margarita Meklina
> meklina@yahoo.com
> http://www.geocities.com/meklina
>
>
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