Montreux
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Montreux is a Swiss municipality and town on the shoreline of Lake Geneva at the foot of the Alps. It belongs to the Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut district in the canton of Vaud, having a population of nearly
A view of Montreux
Lake Geneva from Montreux
Empress Elisabeth of Austria at the Hôtel des Alpes-Grand Hôtel in Territet on 3 September 1898 (one week before dying).
Montreux and Lake Geneva
Vladimir Nabokov
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin, was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist.
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…Freddie Mercury (1946–1991), British musician, lead singer of Queen Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), a Russian-born novelist, poet, translator and entomologist Claude Nobs (1939–2013), Swiss founder of Montreux Jazz Festival…
Nabokov in 1973
Nabokov's grandfather Dmitry Nabokov, who was Justice Minister under Tsar Alexander II
Nabokov's father, V. D. Nabokov, in his World War I officer's uniform, 1914
The Nabokov family mansion in Saint Petersburg; today it is the site of the Nabokov museum.