Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

At the beginning of VN's novel Ada (1969) Van Veen (the narrator and main character) mentions the publishing house Pontius Press that brought out Tolstoy's Detstvo i Otrochestvo:

Describing his nights at Ardis, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Ada, 1969) mentions a crash of symbols in an orchal orchestra:

Describing his first physical contact with Lolita, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) mentions the picture in Lolita's magazine: a surrealist painter relaxing, supine, on a beach, and near him, likewise supine, a plaster replica of the Venus di Milo, half-buried in sand:

In his foreword to Humbert Humbert's manuscript John Ray, Jr. (a character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions Humbert's singing violin:

According to John Ray, Jr. (in VN's novel Lolita, 1955, the author of the foreword to Humbert's manuscript), Humbert Humbert had died in legal captivity, of coronary thrombosis, on November 16, 1952, a few days before his trial was scheduled to start:

At the end of VN's novel Lolita (1955) Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character) mentions prophetic sonnets:

During her second road trip with Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) across the USA, Lolita falls ill and on Tuesday, June 28, 1949, is hospitalized in Elphinstone (a small town in the Rocky Mountains):

In his commentary to Shade’s poem Kinbote (in VN's novel Pale Fire, 1962, Shade's mad commentator who imagines that he is Charles the Beloved, the last self-exiled king of Zembla) mentions Stella Lazurchik, an Americanized Kashube who married a son of Sinyavin, a Russian starover (Old Believer) who migrated from Saratov to Seattle:

During her second road trip with Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) across the USA, Lolita falls ill and on Tuesday, June 28, 1949, is hospitalized in Elphinstone (a small town in the Rocky Mountains):

Describing Lolita's girlfriends at Beardsley, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions Opal Something and the Humbert open house: