Vladimir Nabokov's life story

Vladimir Nabokov vladimirovich Nabokov, 1899, was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, on April 22nd, a wealthy and prominent aristocratic family. Nabokov's father Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov was a liberal lawyer, politician and journalist. He and his mother Elena Ivanovna Né e Rukavishnikova have five children. Nabokov's cousins also include composer Nikolai Nabokov.

Nabokov, his eldest son, spent his childhood in St. Petersburg. Nabokov's family used three languages: Russian, English and French, so Nabokov spoke three languages when he was a child. But to his patriotic father's chagrin, Nabokov was able to read and spell English before learning Russian. 19 17 when the Russian revolution broke out in February, the Nabokovs left Russia for Crimea by boat. His father became the Minister of Justice of Crimea. After living in a friend's house for 18 months, the Crimean White Army uprising failed. So Nabokov's family left Crimea for Western Europe and began to live far away from home. 19 19 After emigrating from Russia, the Nabokovs settled in Britain. In Britain, Nabokov became a student of Trinity College, Cambridge University, majoring in zoology, and also studied Slavic and Romance.

From 65438 to 0922, Nabokov moved to Berlin to live with his family and made a living by teaching English, French, tennis and boxing privately. 1923, Nabokov obtained a degree in French and Russian from Cambridge University, and wrote in Vladimir Xilin Berlin, gaining the reputation of some poets and writers.

1922, Nabokov's father was assassinated by Russian monarchists in Berlin, Germany, because he tried to cover up their real target Pavel Miliukov, an opposition leader who supported the Constitution. This misunderstanding leads to the repeated occurrence of manslaughter in the author's works, especially when the characters are violently killed because of misunderstanding. For example, in Twilight, John Sid was mistaken for the king of Zambra and was assassinated.

1923, Nabokov's mother and sister Elena moved to Prague to receive a government pension as V.D. Nabokov's widow, and Nabokov stayed in Berlin. 1922, Svetlana Sewart got engaged to Nabokov, but at the beginning of 1923, she broke off the engagement. Because her parents thought Nabokov couldn't take care of her. 1923 On May 8, Nabokov met Vera Slonim, the daughter of a Jewish lawyer, at a charity masquerade in Berlin. They got married in Berlin on 1925. Their son Dmitry Dmitry was born. 1936, Vera lost her job because of the growing anti-Semitic atmosphere. From 65438 to 0937, Nabokov and Vera moved to Paris to escape the spreading Nazi disaster. 1940 in may, the Nabokovs took the ferry champlain to the United States to escape the Nazi army.

During his stay in Europe, Nabokov published the novels King, Queen, Jack, A Christmas Story, Defense, Eyes, Honor, Laughter in the Dark, Talent, and Invitation to be beheaded, and also published some translated works, poetry collections, poetic dramas and plays. The plays The Event and The Invention of Waltz were staged in Russian in Paris. 194 1 After arriving in the United States, the Nabokovs lived on Manhattan Island. Nabokov works in the American Museum of Natural History. On June+10 in 5438, he met edmund wilson in edmund wilson. Soon, Nabokov and Wilson became close friends, and Wilson also recommended him for editing. After that, Nabokov was transferred to the new york Museum. From 65438 to 0942, he worked as a researcher at the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard University and taught Russian at the University of Wisconsin every Wednesday. During the period of 194 1- 1942, Nabokov's family moved to Wellesley, Massachusetts. 1942 September, they moved to Cambridge, where they lived until June 1948. Nabokov returned to Wellesley College as a Russian professor in 1944-45 through a lecture tour in the United States. From 65438 to 0945, Nabokov and Vera became American citizens. 1948, Professor of Russian and European Literature, Cornell University. His student at Cornell University, Ginsberg, became the later Supreme Court Justice of the United States.

During this period, he published the real life, signs of abandonment, nine stories and proofs of Sebastian Knight, Nikolai Nikolai Gogol and three Russian poets.

Nabokov wrote Lolita every summer when he was on a "butterfly collection trip" in a nearby mountain. His wife Vera is "his secretary, typist, editor, proofreader, translator, bibliographer, broker, business manager, legal adviser, assistant and driver". When Nabokov tried to burn the unfinished draft, Villa stopped him. Nabokov called Vera the best woman he had ever seen in his life.

From 65438 to 0952, Nabokov was a visiting professor of Slavic Chinese at Harvard University. From June 65438 to June 0953, Nabokov and his family went to Ashland, Oregon, and rented a house on Meade Street. During this period, he finished Lolita and began to write the novel Puning. 1 9531June1day, he and his family returned to Ithaca, new york. Later, he taught the young writer Thomas Pynchon there.

1955, "Lolita" was rejected by four American publishing houses and published by Olympia Publishing House in Paris. From 65438 to 0958, Lolita was published in America. During this period, he also published Spring in Fiyalta, Puning and Thirteen Chapters of Nabokov, and translated and published lermontov's novel Contemporary Heroes in cooperation with his only son Dmitry. The great response of Lolita gave Nabokov enough money to return to Europe and devote himself to writing.

196 1 year 1 October1day, he and Vera moved to Montreux, Switzerland, until the end of their lives.

From 65438 to 0977, Nabokov suffered from severe bronchial congestion in Lausanne. On July 2 of the same year, Nabokov died with his family. His body was cremated and buried in Clarence's cemetery.