Vladimir Nabokov, born in 1899, began life in an upper-class home in St. Petersburg, and it was in that city and on the nearby Rozhestveno estate that he and his family lived until they were dispossessed by the Russian Revolution. The family then moved to Berlin. The young Vladimir, who had learned English as a child, attended Cambridge University from 1919 to 1922. When Vladimir was in his last year at Cambridge, White Russian terrorists assassinated his father, V.D. Nabokov, in Berlin. The effects of this trauma are reflected in many of Nabokov’s novels and stories.
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