Nabokov news

[Vitaly A. Chernetsky]

>>From C-reuters at clarinet.com Wed Apr 12 12:27:14 EDT 1995
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Greetings!

Here's the news item from Reuters that has been posted a little while
ago. (Note Reuter sending V.V. to the US in 1918!)

Best,

Vitaly Chernetsky

         *Fire destroys ex-home of writer Nabokov*
         ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuter) -- The former country house
of Russian novelist and exile Vladimir Nabokov has been
destroyed by fire and police said Wednesday they could not rule
out arson.
         Nabokov, author of ``Lolita,'' inherited the two-storey
wooden house in Rozhdestveno, 45 miles south of St. Petersburg,
from  his uncle in 1916. But he spent little time there before
fleeing the Bolshevik Revolution for the United States in 1918.
         The house became a state-run museum in 1987, 10 years after
Nabokov died in Switzerland. St. Petersburg police said it had
burnt down Monday.