Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0007506, Fri, 31 Jan 2003 09:32:00 -0800

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Re: Tolstoy's Ghost/The Vane Sisters (fwd)
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From: Meredith Brosnan <meredith@akula.com>


Mr. Stadlen has a good point: Anyone with knowledge of the Yasnaya
Polyana main house could have described the motif on the fence to VN. Or
he might have read about it in a book. Does anyone know if VN or a
relative ever visited the Tolstoy estate in Tula?

Galya Diment wrote:

>From: STADLEN@aol.com
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>>Do Russians call some pawn or piece "the cock"?
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>>If not, it's the picture.
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>Even if the Russians did or do, what has playing chess got to do with a
>response to a request for evidence of "specific traits of terrene habitation"
>(The Vane Sisters)? But it doesn't have to be that picture. Nabokov just
>needs to have known what Tolstoy's home was like.
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>Anthony Stadlen
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