Dear list,
 the Ayn Rand issue may have caused misunderstanding as far as the
 Nabokov Museum is concerned.
 Apart from its main area, Nabokov Museum in St.Petersburg has a small exhibition space where various
 temporary exhibitions take place, not necessarily related to Nabokov.This is common practice in local
 museums and a very good one, too. It attracts more people to the museum
 who may otherwise have never had any interest in Nabokov.
 The temporary exhibits change every 2-3 weeks. One of these exhibits
 back in November was a photo exhibition on Ayn Rand provided
 by the Ayn Rand Institute.
 I personally think that Ayn Rand (BTW, totally unknown in Russia even
 though her major novels were translated in published in Russia
 some time in the 1990s)presents a very interesting cultural
 phenomenon comparable to Nikolai Chernyshevsky (well known to all
 readers of "The Gift")- her ideological adversary.
 

Tatiana O. Ponomareva
Director
Vladimir Nabokov Museum
#47 Bolshaya Morskaya    
St.Petersburg 190000
Russia
                mailto:tatiana@nabokovmuseum.org