Nabokov: Forty years after death
On July 2, 1977, Vladimir Nabokov was gone. He was born on April 10 (22), 1899 in St. Petersburg, left Russia in 1919 and spent more than twenty years in Europe. In 1940-1958, Nabokov lived in the United States, where he became an American citizen, and spent the last two decades of his life in Switzerland. Vladimir Nabokov died in Lausanne and was buried in Claran - Montreyo. American writer and literary critic Maxim D. Schraer , author of the books “Waiting for America” and “Bunin and Nabokov.