Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

In VN's novel Ada (1969) Van and Ada find out that they are brother and sister thanks to Marina's old herbarium that they discovered in the attic of Ardis Hall:

At the end of his Commentary Kinbote (in VN’s novel Pale Fire, 1962, Shade’s mad commentator who imagines that he is Charles the Beloved, the last self-exiled king of Zembla) mentions a bigger, more respectable, more competent Gradus who will presently ring at his door:

"And you, what will you be doing with yourself, poor King, poor Kinbote?" a gentle young voice may inquire.

Describing the poltergeist phenomena in Shade's house, Kinbote (in VN’s novel Pale Fire, 1962, Shade’s mad commentator who imagines that he is Charles the Beloved, the last self-exiled king of Zembla) mentions one of Aunt Maud's oils (Cypress and Bat):

Describing his life with Lolita at Beardsley, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) mentions a Dr. Ilse Tristramson:

In his diary Gumbert Gumbert (Humbert Humbert's name in the Russian Lolita, 1967) calls Lolita's mother gnusnaya Geyzikha:

Describing the childhood travels of Ada and Lucette with their mother, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions Marina’s friend, the theatrical big shot, Gran D. du Mont:

According to Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955), his mother was a granddaughter of two Dorset parsons, experts in obscure subjects - paleopedology and Aeolian harps, respectively:

In his Foreword to Humbert Humbert's manuscript John Ray, Jr. (a character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions his colleague, Dr. Blanche Schwarzmann:

According to Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955), his father had a dash of the Danube in his veins:

In VN’s novel Lolita (1955) Clare Quilty (the playwright who abducts Lolita from the Elphinstone hospital) resembles Gustave Trapp, Humbert Humbert’s Swiss uncle: