Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

At the dinner with Ada (now married to Andrey Vinelander) and her family in Bellevue Hotel in Mont Roux in October 1905 Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Ada, 1969) mentions Maître Jorat, or Raton:

When Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) visits Lolita (now married to Dick Schiller) in Coalmont, she tells him about her stay at Duk Duk Ranch with Clare Quilty (the playwright who abducted Lolita from the Elphinstone hospital) and his friends:

She took from the mantelpiece a concave glossy snapshot. Old woman in white, stout, beaming, bowlegged, very short dress; old man in his shirtsleeves, drooping mustache, watch chain. Her in-laws. Living with Dick’s brother’s family in Juneau.

Telling Van that she has to finish a translation for Mlle Larivière (in VN's novel Ada, 1969, the governess of Van's and Ada's half-sister Lucette), Ada says that she will be down in exactly sixty-three minutes:

In his translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (1964) VN renders the line V okno smotrel i mukh davil (Two: III: 4) as "looked through the window, and squashed flies:"

Describing his novel Letters from Terra, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Ada, 1969) mentions Nefzawi’s treatise on the best method of mating with obese or hunchbacked females:

Describing his meeting with Lucette (Van's and Ada's half-sister) in Paris at the end of May, 1901, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Ada, 1969) mentions Vivian Vale’s golden veils and The Chimes of Chose, a Sapsucker paperback on a book shelf in the lobby of Alphonse Four (Lucette's hotel):

In his Foreword to Humbert Humbert's manuscript John Ray, Jr. (a character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions his colleague, Dr. Blanche Schwarzmann:

Perusing old issues of the Briceland Gazette, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) finds out, among other things, that the size of certain parasites is one sixth of the host:

Walking past the grave of his wife Charlotte (Lolita's mother) at the Ramsdale cemetery, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) says "Bonzhur, Charlotte:" 

When Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) revisits Ramsdale in September 1952, Mrs. Chatfield wants to know had Humbert done to Dolly, perhaps, what Frank Lasalle, a fifty-year-old mechanic, had done to eleven-year-old Sally Horner in 1948: