First a little personal business to get out of the way: 

I bid Carmenolyn a brief farewell yesterday as she ran to catch a bus to JPL. I don't think we'll be hearing from her anymore.

But since I live on, google on, etsy etsy, I thought I'd take a little trip on the Amazon, following on the trail of Andrew Kahn and Pushkin that Sandy Klein announced above. I was rewarded with a glimpse of Nabokov that same area. 

If you go there, you too will find three volumes of Two Hundred Years of Pushkin (or was it two volumes of three hundred years?) and though they all mention Nabokov, volume I has an article by by Christopher Veldhus (I;m not making this up) entitled "Love and Death in Pushkin's Stone guest and Nabokov's Death", and our own Priscilla Meyers has an article in Volume II with the intriguing title "How the Bronze Horseman was made" (I expect some interesting metallurgy to come from that one, but little or no Nabokov).

Carolyn