Nabokov Biography Family

The Nabokov family today of the Nabokov family today since the year, after the end of World War II, Nabokov was able to gradually restore contact with his relatives who remained in Europe. By that time, brother Cyril, sisters Elena and Olga remained alive. Particularly close relations between Nabokov developed with her sister Elena Vladimirovna, along the husband of Sikorskaya.

Their long-term correspondence was published in Russian by the Ardis publishing house and is of exceptional interest for everyone who wants to learn more about Vladimir Nabokov as a person. He did not find many of his loved ones alive, returning to Europe in the year. Elena Ivanovna Nabokova died in a year in Prague, was buried there, next to her faithful friend Evgenia Konstantinovna Hofeld Hofeld, who lived with her in the same apartment for many years and helped her in everything.

Sergey Vladimirovich Nabokov during the war lived in Germany and was arrested by the Nazis for "subversive activities." In the year, he died in the German concentration camp of Neyenhamma. Kirill Vladimirovich Nabokov wrote poetry, in his youth participated in the Prague poetic circle of “The Skith of Poets”, published in poetic collections, and later moved to Belgium. The last years of his life worked as a journalist in the Russian edition of Radio “Freedom”.

Elena Vladimirovna Sikorskaya spent the whole war with her family in Prague, and after the war she moved with her husband and son Vladimir to Geneva, where she worked as a librarian for many years. Her son Vladimir Sikorsky, translator-synchronist, lives with his family in Geneva.

Both he and his children visited our museum. Elena Vladimirovna is the only one of the Nabokov family who was in Leningrad in Soviet times. She came to our city several times as a tourist at the invitation of her Leningrad friends. It was from her that Vladimir Nabokov learned that many in Russia know and remember him; He also learned that the house on Bolshaya Morskaya, in which he grew up, was preserved.

Olga Vladimirovna Petkevich lived in Prague all her life, her son Rostislav grew up there. Her grandson Vladimir Petkevich - professor of Karlova University, specialist in structural linguistics; He has been in our museum more than once. Dmitry Vladimirovich Nabokov, a former opera singer, has been translating his father's works into English for many years.

He is also the author of preface to many publications of Nabokov. Dmitry Vladimirovich was several times in our museum and gave us valuable objects belonging to his father. Site section:.