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Re: Tolstoy's Ghost/The Vane Sisters (fwd)
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From: Mary Bellino <iambe@rcn.com>
There is another photograph of Tolstoy described in Pnin:
"a snapshot of a Russian pasture with Lyov Tolstoy trudging
across it toward the camera and some long-maned horses
behind him" (p. 73 of the first ed.)
Gennady Barabtarlo (Phantom of Fact 132) identifies this
picture with one appearing in the book that was the "model"
for the Zol. Fond Lit. tome that plays a part in chapter 3
of Pnin: vol 37-38 of the Literaturnoe Nasledstvo series
(begun 1931); the volume is entitled "L.N. Tolstoy." Can
anyone tell us whether the photograph posted by Meredith
Brosnan also appears in that volume? Or should we be looking
elsewhere for Nabokov's source for the photo?
Mary
There is another photograph of Tolstoy described in Pnin:
"a snapshot of a Russian pasture with Lyov Tolstoy trudging
across it toward the camera and some long-maned horses
behind him" (p. 73 of the first ed.)
Gennady Barabtarlo (Phantom of Fact 132) identifies this
picture with one appearing in the book that was the "model"
for the Zol. Fond Lit. tome that plays a part in chapter 3
of Pnin: vol 37-38 of the Literaturnoe Nasledstvo series
(begun 1931); the volume is entitled "L.N. Tolstoy." Can
anyone tell us whether the photograph posted by Meredith
Brosnan also appears in that volume? Or should we be looking
elsewhere for Nabokov's source for the photo?
Mary