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1. Alice by Another Name, and Nabokov, Too

In some other Wonderland, she may have remained Alice – but when a certain Sirin heard of her plight, his messy meddling left her convinced she was Anya.

Tags: soviet union, russian emigre, writing, author, Alice in Wonderland, Nabokov
2. Provence Pastoral

On Vladimir Nabokov’s little known hiatus as a farm hand.

Tags: russian emigres, france, nabokov
3. Nabokov: What to Read

Today is Vladimir Nabokov's birthday, so we asked Russian Life contributor and Nabokov expert Diana Bruk where to start when reading the master. She offers with five annotated recommendations.

Tags: Nabokov, literature
By Diana Bruk
4. Happy Birthday Nikosha Gogol!

Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol is one of Russia's greatest and yet least appreciated writers. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov and other classics, said that "we all came out of Gogol's Overcoat." What he meant is that Gogol was completely unlike any Russian writer who preceded him, and that all Russian literature that followed was indebted to him.

Tags: gogol, literature, nabokov, dostoyevsky
By Paul E. Richardson

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