Nabokov's Whereabouts. December -- July This has been a list-in-progress ever since its inception in the early s, when I began it as one of the tools needed for editing Nabokov's Collected Works in German Gesammelte Werke, Rowohlt Verlag, 2 5 volumes from 1 9 89 to 7.
Since its various early stages were published on Jeff Edmund's website Zembla "frozen" in The last addition there was made in ; all further additions and corrections are collected on this webpage.
Without the Internet with its boundless possibilities of checking localities and finding historical picture post cards and without the Satellite and Street View images furnished by Google Maps and Google Earth, the illustrations would be much scantier. According to his own calculation, this would correspond to April 23 in the Gregorian calendar New Style which Russia introduced in However, the calculation is tricky because on Nabokov's first birthday the turn of the century had intervened: On February 17, the advance of the Gregorian calendar increased from twelve to thirteen days.
So add twelve or thirteen days? The critical date is the date of birth and not the first birthday. So for his year of birth, twelve days should be added. The N. Nabokov spends his infancy and childhood at the townhouse of his family on B olshaya Morskaya Street 47, St.
Petersburg, Russia , in the noble center of the town , just a few hundred metres from St. Isaac's Square. The long summers of his childhood and youth he either spends at his family's country estate of Vyra, c.
