Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov (75 page)

Vladimir, Véra, and Dmitri Nabokov, Berlin, 1935, two years after Hitler’s rise to power.
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the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov, used by permission of The Wylie Agency, LLC
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Solzhenitsyn as an artillery captain during World War
II. File/AP Photo
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Nabokov’s mother, Elena. Prague, 1931.
Photo courtesy of Vladimir Petkevič
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Nabokov’s sister Olga with her son Rostislav in Prague near the start of World War II. At right, Evgenia Hofeld, the longtime companion of Nabokov’s mother.
Photo courtesy of Vladimir Petkevič
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Boris Petkevič, the husband of Olga Nabokov, whose anti-Soviet activities reportedly gained Nazi support.
Photo courtesy of Vladimir Petkevič
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U. S. Immigration and visa photos for Véra Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

Nicholas Nabokov

Carl Junghans

Sonia Slonim, 1934 to 1941.

The prisoners, hired workers, and indigenous Nenets of the Vaigach Expedition, 1930s.
Photo courtesy of Tomasz Kizny Gulag collection
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The remains of the Vaigach Expedition today on the southernmost island of the Nova Zemblan archipelago.
Photo by Tomasz Kizny
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