Nabokov House
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Nabokov House is the house in Saint Petersburg with the modern street number of 47 Large Morskaya Street, 190000. It was in this mansion that Vladimir Nabokov was born in 1899. Currently the first floor of the house contains the Nabokov Museum.
Between 1897 and the October Revolution the house was the property of the Nabokovs, who had obtained it as a dowry of Elena Rukavishnikova (Vladimir Nabokov's mother). Vladimir Vladimirovich lived in the house until November 1917. The house is meticulously described inhis autobiography The Other Shores. For Vladimir the house remained the only house in the world. Subsequently, even when he grew rich, he never acquired any other house and preferred to live in hotels.
Currently the first floor of the house (the family floor in Nabokov's time) is occupied by the Nabokov Museum and the upper two stories (the parents' floor and the children's floor) are occupied by the offices of the newspaper Nevskoe Vremya. On the territory of the museum there are Phone room, Dining room, Library, Committee Room (there most of the meetings of the Constitutional Democratic party were held) and the Kitchen.
According to the offer of Vladimir's son Dmitri Nabokov all the royalties from the Nabokov's publications in Russia go to the museum. Most of the museum colections are also gifts from Dmitry or Nabokov's friends.
References
- Booklet Saint Petersburg Museum of V. V. Nabokov
- [Website of the museum]
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