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From: "Mikhail Avrekh" <mavrekh@lbl.gov>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
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> In Pnin, Chapter 5, there is a mention of "Lidia Vinogradov, the
> well-known feminist and social worker", with whom her niece, Varvara
> Bolotov (the wife of the "seedy philosopher" Bolotov) escaped from Russia
> to Western Europe. This is on or around p.120 in the Vintage edition.
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> Could someone who is familiar with the history of Russian feminism perhaps
> offer an educated guess as to who might be the prototype for "the
> well-known feminist" ? Expectedly enough, a cursory search on the web did
> not turn up any names that sound (to me) anything like Lidia Vinogradov.
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> M.
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From: "Mikhail Avrekh" <mavrekh@lbl.gov>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 10:20 AM
Subject: lidia vinogradov
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> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (13
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> In Pnin, Chapter 5, there is a mention of "Lidia Vinogradov, the
> well-known feminist and social worker", with whom her niece, Varvara
> Bolotov (the wife of the "seedy philosopher" Bolotov) escaped from Russia
> to Western Europe. This is on or around p.120 in the Vintage edition.
>
> Could someone who is familiar with the history of Russian feminism perhaps
> offer an educated guess as to who might be the prototype for "the
> well-known feminist" ? Expectedly enough, a cursory search on the web did
> not turn up any names that sound (to me) anything like Lidia Vinogradov.
>
> M.
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