- Он смесь. Пять процентов от Ленинa, пять от Суворовa, пять от Арaкчеевa, двaдцaть от гоголевского сумaсшедшего, a остaльное водa, aqua distillata. (chapter XXVI)

Upon being questioned in Demon's dungeon, Marina, laughing trillingly, wove a picturesque tissue of lies; then broke down, and confessed. She swore that all was over; that the Baron, a physical wreck and a spiritual Samurai, had gone to Japan forever. From a more reliable source Demon learned that the Samurai's real destination was smart little Vatican, a Roman spa, whence he was to return to Aardvark, Massa, in a week or so. (1.2)

Каков бы я ни был, у меня есть свой кодекс чести. Так сказать, «бусидо» японских самураев, — хмуро сказал Шелль. В глазах у него что-то мелькнуло. «При случае может быть страшен, самурай», — отметил полковник. ("Delirium," chapter II)

— Удивит ли вас, если я скажу, что полковник № 2 тоже честный человек, правда, со всячинкой, как они все, и окруженный негодяями. Его положение трудное. Сталину вообще надо докладывать то, что он желает слышать. Неприятных сведений он не выносит, — большой недостаток для главы правительства. (ibid.)

With white-bloused, enthusiastically sweating Andrey Andreevich, he [Van] lolled for hours in the violet shade of pink cliffs, studying major and minor Russian writers - and puzzling out the exaggerated but, on the whole, complimentary allusions to his father's volitations and loves in another life in Lermontov's diamond-faceted tetrameters. (1.28)

Van's Russian tutor Andrey Andreevich Aksakov (AAA) is a namesake of Ada's husband (Dorothy's brother) Andrey Andreevich Vinelander, a great sportsman. In Aldanov's Bred Colonel No. 2 avidly reads Aksakov's book on hunting. Aksakov and bred (ravings; delirium) are mentioned by Vyazemski in Literaturnaya ispoved' ("The Literary Confession," 1853), a poem written in the Alexandrines. Vyazemski's poem Aleksandriyskiy stikh ("The Alexandrines," 1853) has the epigraph from the drafts of Pushkin's Domik v Kolomne ("The Small Cottage in Kolomna," 1830):

…А стих александрийский?..
Уж не его ль себе я залучу?
Извилистый, проворный, длинный, склизкий
И с жалом даже, точная змея;
Мне кажется, что с ним управлюсь я.

Как весело стихи свои вести
Под цифрами, в порядке, строй за строем,
Не позволять им в сторону брести,
Как войску, в пух рассыпанному боем!
Тут каждый слог замечен и в чести,
Тут каждый стих глядит себе героем,
А стихотворец... с кем же равен он?
Он Тамерлан иль сам Наполеон. (V)

Tamerlane (1336?-1405), the Tartar conqueror in western and southern Asia, ruler of Samarkand, is also known as Timur. Timur and Nabok are paired in Ada:

Ada had declined to invite anybody except the Erminin twins to her picnic; but she had had no intention of inviting the brother without the sister. The latter, it turned out, could not come, having gone to New Cranton to see a young drummer, her first boy friend, sail off into the sunrise with his regiment. But Greg had to be asked to come after all: on the previous day he had called on her bringing a 'talisman' from his very sick father, who wanted Ada to treasure as much as his grandam had a little camel of yellow ivory carved in Kiev, five centuries ago, in the days of Timur and Nabok. (1.39)

The twins Greg and Grace are the children of Colonel Erminin. Kiev is the home city of Aldanov and Natasha (Shell's bride in Bred). Talisman (1827) is a poem by Pushkin. The talisman (finger-ring with a sard) was given to Pushkin in Odessa by Countess Eliza Vorontsov. Her namesake Eliza Khitrovo (Kutuzov's daughter who was hopelessly in love with Pushkin) was nicknamed Erminia (after a character in Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered) by the poet's sister Olga. Pushkin addressed to Olga his poem Vertograd moey sestry... ("My Sister's Garden," 1825). In Ada Miss Vertograd is Demon's librarian:

Soon upon his arrival at Ardis, Van warned his former governess (who had reasons to believe in his threats) that if he were not permitted to remove from the library at any time, for any length of time, and without any trace of 'en lecture,' any volume, collected works, boxed pamphlets or incunabulum that he might fancy, he would have Miss Vertograd, his father's librarian, a completely servile and infinitely accommodative spinster of Verger's format and presumable date of publication, post to Ardis Hall trunkfuls of eighteenth century libertines, German sexologists, and a whole circus of Shastras and Nefsawis in literal translation with apocryphal addenda. (1.21)

Vertograd's rhyme city is, of course, Leningrad (or Stalingrad). I notice that in his poem Molodoy turka ("A Young Turk," 1889) Vladimir Solovyov wittily rhymes vertograd with retrograd (a retrograde person, reactionary):

The young Turk in Solovyov's poem fears the agile eunuch who watches after the girls in his father's vertograd (harem). In his sword duel with d'Onsky Demon was eager to castrate his adversary. Papa being Russian for "Pope," papin ("father's," the word used by Solovyov in his poem) can also mean "the Pope's." As Demon found out, d'Onsky had left for Vatican. In A. K. Tolstoy's poem Bunt v Vatikane ("The Riot in Vatican," 1864) the eunuch singers attempt to castrate the Pope Pius IX. A. K. Tolstoy's satirical poem Velikodushie smyagchaet serdtsa ("Magnanimity Softens the Hearts") was first published by Solovyov in Tri Razgovora ("Three Conversations," 1899). The second edition of "Three Conversations about the War, Progress and End of the World History" includes Povest' ob Antikhriste ("The Tale about Antichrist," 1900). Its authorship is ascribed to a monk named Pansofiy (Pansophius). "Pan Sophius, a Pole?" (asks the Politician). "The Tale about Antichrist" has the epigraph from Solovyov's poem Panmongolism (1894):

Панмонголизм! Хоть слово дико,
Но мне ласкает слух оно,
Как бы предвестием великой
Судьбины божией полно.

It brings to mind the Antiterran Tartary, also known as "the ruthless Sovietnamur Khanate" ruled by Khan Sosso (2.2). Incidentally, Blok's poem Skify ("The Scythians," 1918) also has the epigraph from Solovyov's Panmongolism. In his poem Blok mentions the Lissabon and Messina earthquakes:

Века, века ваш старый горн ковал
И заглушал грома, лавины,
И дикой сказкой был для вас провал
И Лиссабона, и Мессины!

Messina (a seaport in NE Sicily) brings to mind Messiah mentioned by Solovyov in Panmongolism:

Когда в растленной Византии
Остыл божественный алтарь
И отреклися от Мессии
Иерей и князь, народ и царь, -

Тогда он поднял от Востока
Народ безвестный и чужой,
И под орудьем тяжким рока
Во прах склонился Рим второй.

In Solovyov's poem Messiya rhymes with Vizantiya (Byzantine Empire) and altar' rhymes with tsar'. On Demonia (aka Antiterra) Altar and Palermontovia are parts of the British Commonwealth:

Actually, Aqua was less pretty, and far more dotty, than Marina. During her fourteen years of miserable marriage she spent a broken series of steadily increasing sojourns in sanatoriums. A small map of the European part of the British Commonwealth - say, from Scoto-Scandinavia to the Riviera, Altar and Palermontovia - as well as most of the U.S.A., from Estoty and Canady to Argentina, might be quite thickly prickled with enameled red-cross-flag pins, marking, in her War of the Worlds, Aqua's bivouacs. (1.3)

Palermontovia blends Palermo (a seaport in and the capital of Sicily) with Lermontov, the author of Demon and the prophetic Predskazanie ("Prediction," 1830). The War of the Worlds (1897) is a novel by H. G. Wells. In his Russia in the Shadows (1920) Wells calls Lenin "the Kremlin dreamer."