Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

In the Russian Lolita (1967) the word officer in Humbert's poem "Wanted" composed after Lolita's abduction from (or, more likely, death in) the Elphinstone hospital is rendered as patrul'shchik (patrol man):

Патрульщик, патрульщик, вон там, под дождем,
Где струится ночь, светофорясь...
Она в белых носках, она - сказка моя,
И зовут ее: Гейз, Долорес.
Патрульщик, патрульщик, вон едут они,
Долорес Гейз и мужчина.
Дай газу, вынь кольт, догоняй, догони,
Вылезай, заходи за машину!

As he speaks to Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955), Clare Quilty mentions Phil who calls Philadelphia and Pat who calls Patagonia:

Among the things that Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) and Lolita cannot discuss are stippled Hopkins and shorn Baudelaire:

In an attempt to save his life Clare Quilty (a playwright and pornographer whom Humbert murders for abducting Lolita from the Elphinstone hospital) offers Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) to arrange for him to attend executions and tells him that the chair is painted yellow:

In VN's novel Lolita (1955) Humbert Humbert describes Charlotte Haze (Lolita's mother) as "a weak solution of Marlene Dietrich:"

At the end of his commentary to Shade's poem Kinbote (in VN’s novel Pale Fire, 1962, Shade’s mad commentator who imagines that he is Charles the Beloved, the last self-exiled king of Zembla) tells about his frustration after reading Shade's poem and mentions the unique atmosphere of his kingdom:

Describing his meetings with Ada (now married to Andrey Vinelander) in Mont Roux in October 1905, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions those painted Priapi that the Romans once used to set up in the arbors of Rufomonticulus:

Describing Demon’s sword duel with Baron d’Onsky (nicknamed Skonky), Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions smart little Vatican, a Roman spa:

According to Ada, at the funeral of Marina (in VN's novel Ada, 1969, Van's, Ada's and Lucette's mother) Demon Veen (Van's and Ada's father) and d’Onsky’s son, a person with only one arm, wept comme des fontaines:

‘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.’

When Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) and Ada (now married to Andrey Vinelander) meet in Mont Roux in October 1905 (half a year after Demon Veen's death in a mysterious airplane disaster above the Pacific), Ada tells Van about the hag who visited her at the Agavia Ranch and demanded certain fantastic sums — which Demon had not had time to pay, for "popping the hymen:"