Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

On Demonia (aka Antiterra, Earth’s twin planet on which Ada, 1969, is set) Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary (1857) is known as Floeberg’s Ursula:

According to Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955), Miss Phalen broke her hip in Savannah, Ga., on the very day he arrived in Ramsdale and moved in the Haze house:

Describing his life with Ada in his old age, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions his old valet, Stepan Nootkin:

According to Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969), Dr Fitzbishop (a surgeon in the Kalugano hospital where Van recovers from the wound received in a pistol duel with Captain Tapper) is a poshlyak:

In VN’s novel Ada (1969) Van criticizes Ada’s version of a poem by Coppée and compares Ada to a Russian nobleman who chucked his coachman to the wolves, and then fell out of his sleigh:

According to Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969), the merest touch of Ada’s finger or mouth produced not only a more potent but essentially different delicia than the slowest ‘winslow’ of the most sophisticated young harlot:

Offering Ada a ride in the park, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions two horses, Pardus and Peg:

‘Now let’s go out for a breath of crisp air,’ suggested Van. ‘I’ll order Pardus and Peg to be saddled.’

In "Ardis the First"  Marina (in VN’s novel Ada, 1969, Van's, Ada's and Lucette's mother) uses the word horosho (good) in the sense "all right:"

Describing his dinner in ‘Ursus’ with Ada and Lucette, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions Flora, a slender, hardly nubile, half-naked music-hall dancer of uncertain origin:

According to Ada, she saw the phrase "far enough, fair enough" in small violet letters before Van (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) put it into orange ones: