Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

In the Russian Lolita (1967) Gumbert Gumbert calls Dr Ivor Quilty (the Ramsdale dentist whom Gumbert visits on September 24, 1952, in order to find out his nephew's address) "Ay-da-vor! (What a thief!):"

Describing his transatlantic journey with Lucette (Van's and Ada's half-sister) onboard Admiral Tobakoff, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions Le Havre-de-Grâce, a port from which his ship had sailed:

Describing the library of Ardis Hall, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Ada, 1969) mentions Monsieur Philippe Verger (a visiting librarian at Ardis) and Miss Vertograd (Demon Veen's librarian):

Describing Lolita's illness and hospitalization in Elphinstone (a small town in the Rocky Mountains), Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) mentions some “serum” (sparrow’s sperm or dugong’s dung) to which Lolita's young organism splendidly reacted:

According to the protagonist of VN's novel Lolita (1955), Humbert Humbert tried hard to be good:  

In his pocket diary that he kept at Ramsdale as Charlotte's lodger Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) calls himself "Humbert the Hoarse:"

In his pocket diary that he kept at Ramsdale as Charlotte's lodger Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) mentions the hideous hieroglyphics of his fatal lust:

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:

Describing his talk with Miss Pratt (the headmistress of the Beardsley School for Girls), Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) compares the smoke Miss Pratt exhaled from her nostrils to a pair of tusks:

Describing Lolita's illness and hospitalization in Elphinstone (a small town in the Rocky Mountains), Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions poor Bluebeard: