Subject: Nabokov, in a poem to his fiancee . . .
From: "NABOKV-L" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 22:30:52 -0400

EDNOTE.  Eric Naiman sends a link to a "rather opinionated" piece on the
1895 Nagant 7.62mm. revolver 
r which opens by quoting a poem from VN to Vera Slonim before their
marriage:

http://www.sff.net/people/sanders/nagant.html

Stacy Schiff quotes this same poem in her biography, Vera (Mrs. Vladimir
Nabokov) (New York: Random House, 1999), with regard to the fact that at
the time Nabokov met Vera Slonim she carried a pistol and claimed to be
a crack shot (pp. 55-56).

SES

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