Berlin January 31 to August 28, 1924

Keithstraße 14, 10787 Berlin, Germany

Vladimir settled at 21 Lutershtrasse in Schöneberg, at the Andersen boarding house. Lutershtrasse no longer exists. It was a continuation of today's Marin-Luther-Straße, partially corresponding to today's Keithstraße.

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After the departure of Vladimir’s family – his mother Elena Ivanovna, brother Konstantin, and sisters Olga and Elena – to Prague, where they could count on financial support from the Russian émigré community, Vladimir settled at 21 Lutersstraße in Schöneberg, in the Andersen boarding house. Lutersstraße no longer exists. It was a continuation of today’s Marin-Luther-Straße, partially corresponding to today’s Keithstraße (address Keithstraße 14). He lived there from January 31 to August 28, 1924. Nearby was the café “Leon” on Nollendorfplatz, a favorite among Russian émigrés. Later, he changed his addresses several times in the immediate vicinity of Martin Luther Straße; he lived on Motzstraße, twice on Litpoldstraße, but these houses were completely destroyed during the war.

Life in the boarding house was not very pleasant for Vladimir. While he was visiting his mother in Czechoslovakia, the owner hid his coat, fearing non-payment for lodging. Apparently, at that time, this was a favored method of exerting pressure on tenants, as the situation repeated later.

Sources:

https://dzen.ru/a/XI8auvhACQCzlOQt

https://blogs.7iskusstv.com/?p=110739

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Museum-Estate of V. Nabokov "Rozhdestveno"

Estate Bridge, Kiev Highway, 106, Rozhdestveno, Leningrad Region, Russia, 188356

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Petersburg: Estates of the City and Surroundings (Leningrad Region)

According to Vladimir Nabokov's recollections: "The Christmas estate — purchased by him specifically for his elder son, who died young — was said to have been built on the ruins of the palace where Peter the Great, a master of dreadful tyranny, imprisoned Alexei. Now it was a charming, extraordinary house. After nearly forty years, I can easily recall both the overall impression and the details in my memory: the marble checkerboard floor in the cool and resonant hall, the heavenly overhead light, the white galleries, a sarcophagus in one corner of the living room, an organ in another, the vivid scent of greenhouse flowers everywhere…"

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“The Only Home in the World” by Vladimir Nabokov

Bolshaya Morskaya St., 47, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 190000

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The district of Bolshaya and Malaya Morskaya Streets is one of the oldest in the city on the Neva. It was there, at house number 47 on Bolshaya Morskaya Street, that the writer Vladimir Nabokov was born and lived in April 1899. Even after leaving Russia, he called this place the only home in the world for the rest of his life. The district of Bolshaya and Malaya Morskaya Streets is one of the oldest in the city on the Neva.

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Tenishev School

Mokhovaya St., 33, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191028

Russia: We all learned a little bit

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In January 1911, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov enrolled his sons — the elder was almost twelve, and the younger was eleven — in the Tenishev School, a private school founded in 1900 by Prince Vyacheslav Tenishev, who, during the first few years of its existence, allocated more than a million rubles for its needs.

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The Murder of Nabokov (the Father) in Berlin

Bernburger Str. 35, 10963 Berlin, Germany

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On March 28, 1922, in the hall of the Berlin Philharmonic, two Russian émigré monarchists attempted to kill a Russian émigré anti-monarchist, the leader of the Kadet party, Pavel Milyukov. Milyukov survived, but his party comrade Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, the father of the Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov, was killed.

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Nabokov in Berlin, house 22 on Nestorstraße, Berlin

Nestorstraße 22, 10709 Berlin, Germany

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A writer, poet, critic, translator, and entomologist Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, who lived permanently in Berlin from June 1922 to January 1937, changed many rented apartments and boarding houses during those years. After his marriage in 1926 to Vera Evseevna Slonim, the longest and most stable period of residence was with his wife and son Dmitri in an apartment at the address: Nestorstrasse, 22.

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Egerstrasse, 1 – the first Berlin address of the poet Nabokov

Jägerstraße 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany

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Egerstraße, 1 – the first Berlin address of the poet, writer, critic, and translator Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov. The house was not damaged and today is listed under the same number.

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Berlin January 31 to August 28, 1924

Keithstraße 14, 10787 Berlin, Germany

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The estate "Vyrskaya Myza" or Nabokov's Vyra on the bank of the Oredezh River.

Parkovaya St., 26, Rozhdestveno, Leningrad Region, Russia, 188356

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The estate of Vladimir Nabokov's parents. Currently, only a glacier, a park alley, and Mount Parnassus remain of the estate. The manor house burned down during the war.

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The main estate of the Nabokovs - the Batovo manor

8W95+JJ Batovo, Leningrad Oblast, Russia

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The main estate of the Nabokovs was the Batovo manor. Since 1800, the estate belonged to the Ryleev family; the famous poet and revolutionary Kondraty Ryleev and his friends often visited here. During Nabokov's time, the house even had a "ghost room" — a former study where the shadow of the executed poet was said to appear, and the main park alley was called the "Hanged Man's Alley" — also in memory of the former owner.

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