Svetlana (ballad)
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Svetlana is a ballad by the Russian poet Vasily Zhukovsky, published in 1813. It is one of Zhukovsky's three adaptations of Gottfried Bürger's ballad Lenore. It is often credited with popularizing the
Karl Bryullov, Svetlana at Fortune-telling
Svetlana, oil painting by Alexander Novoskoltsev
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.
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.