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Eternal Youth
Vladimir Nabokov and the revolution
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In 1919, the 20-year-old Vladimir Nabokov has fled from revolutionary Petrograd and decamped to the Crimea where he writes poetry, catalogues butterflies, plays chess and waits for Lenin's Red Army to arrive.
Bibliography:
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Collected Poems by Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years by Brian Boyd
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