I did a fair amount of research on the topic of Bely and Nabokov for a paper I presented on Fyodor's poetry in The Gift - feel free to contact me for more information.

Some of the more essential resources from the bibliography include:

Alexandrov, Vladimir E. “Nabokov and Bely.” The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov. Ed. Vladimir E. Alexandrov. New York: Garland Publications, 1995.

Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971.  Ed. Simon Karlinsky. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

Johnson, D. Barton. “Belyj and Nabokov: A Comparative Overview.” Russian Literature 9.4 (1981): 379-402.

Karlinsky, Simon. “Nabokov and Some Poets of Russian Modernism.” Cycnos 12.2 (1995): 63-72

Smith, Gerald S. “Nabokov and Russian Verse Form.” Russian Literature Triquarterly 24 (1991): 271-305.

Joseph Schlegel
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Toronto
Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures



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