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Please read Alexey Sklyarenko's annotations on Pale Fire, Ada and other Nabokov works here.
According to Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955), as a boy he wanted to be a famous spy:
Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko
A Mr Brod or Bred whom Dorothy Vinelander (in VN's novel Ada, 1969, Ada's sister-in-law) eventually marries, travels in eucharistials and other sacramental objects throughout the Severnïya Territorii:
The father of the twins Aqua and Marina, General Ivan Durmanov (in VN's novel Ada, 1969, Van's, Ada's and Lucette's grandfather) owned lands in the Severn Tories (Severnïya Territorii):
According to Ada, a couple of hours after Demon's death in a mysterious airplane disaster she and Andrey Vinelander (in VN's novel Ada, 1969, Ada's husband) had sudden visitors at the ranch — an incredibly graceful moppet of eight, black-veiled, and a kind of duenna, also in black, with two bodyguards:
‘My upper-lip space feels indecently naked.’ (He had shaved his mustache off with howls of pain in her presence). ‘And I cannot keep sucking in my belly all the time.’
General Ivan Durmanov (in VN's novel Ada, 1969, Aqua's and Marina’s father) asked his wife why she did not call her daughter Tofana:
According to Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Ada, 1969), one would need another book to describe Ada’s adventures in Adaland:
At the family dinner in "Ardis the Second" Marina (in VN's novel Ada, 1969, Van's, Ada's and Lucette's mother) asks Demon (Van's and Ada's father) if his room number at the hotel is not 222 by any chance:
‘I had hoped you’d sleep here,’ said Marina (not really caring one way or another). ‘What is your room number at the hotel — not 222 by any chance?’
After Van’s and Ada’s death Ronald Oranger (in VN’s novel Ada, 1969, old Van’s secretary, the editor of Ada) marries Violet Knox (old Van’s typist whom Ada calls Fialochka, 'little Violet'):
In March 1905 Demon Veen (in VN's novel Ada, 1969, Van's and Ada's father) perishes in a mysterious airplane disaster above the Pacific. In the same year, soon after his father's death, Van is elected to the Rattner Chair of Philosophy in the University of Kingston:
Describing Lucette's visit to Kingston (Van's American University), Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Ada, 1969) quotes old Rattner's words 'You will "sturb," Van, with an alliteration on your lips:’