EDNOTE. NABOKV-L congratulates Tatyana Ponomareva, Director of the Saint Petersburg Nabokov Museum, and Dmitri Nabokov on the success of their long struggle to obtain official  city backing for the Museum.

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Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:45:04 +0400
From: azint <azint@mail.wplus.net>
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Subject: Re[2]: Tarasov's letter


Dear Nabokovians,

There good news for those of you who have followed the successes and the
tribulations of the
Vladimir Nabokov Memorial Museum in St.Petersburg.
As some of you may remember the SPb Government
officially recognized the cultural value of the Nabokov Museum and
promised to grant to it a status and a funding enjoyed by
all other memorial museums of the city.
Still,some confusion regarding the
museum's future profile remained.
At my suggestion Vice-Governor Tarasov letter clarified
the issue in another letter.
The letter
confirms that the
museum will keep its name, its location and its collection.
As I learned from Dmitri Nabokov the letter
reached him on April 23! Let's hope it's a good sign.
Again, many, many thanks to those who helped and continue to help us.
Also, let me apologize for many delays in replying to your e-mails. I hope
to handle this purely physical problem shortly.
As usual, we arranged new exhibits in April. One is called "Nabokov's
Addresses" and is a collection of photographs of many of the places
where VN and his family lived since 1919. Most of the
photographs were specially made for the exhibit though we relied on
the wonderful collection made by Zembla contributors for information.
Special thanks to Prof.Akiko Nakata for letting us use her photographs
of Ithaca homes.
The other exhibit is
"Nabokov in Samizdat" and it presents an impressive collection of
hand-made books (some typed and some actually written in hand) that
Nabokov's many Russian fans secretly produced for their own and their closest
friends' use during the Soviet years.

We hope to see all of you in the museum some day!


With best wishes,

Tatyana O.Ponomareva
Director
Vladimir Nabokov Museum
#47 Bolshaya Morskaya
190000 St.Petersburg
Russia
tel/fax +7 812 315 4713
mailto:vnabokov@mail.wplus.net

P.S. On a less serious note: while working on the collection catalog our
curator Elena examined one of its items,
the 1904 yearly book of "Uchilische Pravovedeniya" - a privileged
school for boys with an emphasis on legal studies where two of VN's
uncles studied and where his father later taught. She found that
among the "vospitateli" (off-class tutors)
there was a certain Petr Petrovich Humbert.





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