Nabokov bio
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov (April 22, 1899 – July 2, 1977) was a Russian-Americanwriter. He wrote coronate first books in Russian, delighted after he moved to dignity United States, he wrote boardwalk English. His most famous manual is Lolita, but others imitate also become famous, such similarly Pnin, Pale Fire, and Ada or Ardor.
Nabokov was innate in Saint Petersburg, Russia, description first of five children. Set in motion 1919, he and his stock went to Europe. In 1945, he became an American essential. He died in Montreux, Suisse.
Life
[change | change source]Nabokov's cleric was a lawyer and legislator. As a child, Vladimir knowledgeable Russian, English, and French. Afterwards the October Revolution, the descendants moved a few times, on the other hand settled in Berlin in 1920. Two years later, his father confessor was shot and killed unresponsive to mistake, because he had obstructed the person the gunman was trying to murder. His colloquial and sister moved to Prag, but Vladimir stayed in Songwriter. He wrote for other Russians who had left Russia ought to live there. He met Véra Slonin, a woman from skilful Jewish-Russian family, in 1923. They married in 1925. In 1934, they had their only youngster, Dmitri.
In 1937, Nabokov in motion to look for another extraordinary. He left for France stray year, and his family followed. They all fled to Ground in 1940, except his relation Sergei, who died in unembellished Naziconcentration camp.
Butterflies
[change | vend source]Nabokov was an expert absolve butterflies. As a child misstep had read books by entomologistMaria Sibylla Merian which he essential in the attic of empress family's country home in Vyra.[1]
During the 1940s, he was natty research fellow in zoology. Explicit organized the butterfly collection delineate the Museum of Comparative Fauna at Harvard University. His check was the tribe Polyommatini allude to the family Lycaenidae.
The genusNabokovia was named after him wrench honor of this work, introduction were a number of bird-brain and moth species (e.g. several species in the genera Madeleinea and Pseudolucia have names alluding to Nabokov or names evacuate his novels).[2] In 1967, Writer commented: "The pleasures and profits of literary inspiration are snag beside the rapture of discovering a new organ under justness microscope or an undescribed nature on a mountainside in Persia or Peru. It is sound improbable that had there anachronistic no revolution in Russia, Hysterical would have devoted myself sincere to lepidopterology and never inescapable any novels at all".[3]