Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

In the Russian Lolita (1967) 'Vivian Darkbloom' (the name of Clare Quilty’s coauthor, anagram of Vladimir Nabokov) becomes Vivian Damor-Blok and a biography she has written, ‘My Cue,’ becomes Kumir moy (“My Idol”):

In the Russian Lolita (1967) John Ray's Foreword to Humbert Humbert's manuscript is dated August 5, 1955:

Джон Рэй, д-р философии

Видворт, Массачусетс

5 августа 1955 года

Describing his first road trip with Lolita across the USA, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions early spring mountains with young-elephant lanugo along their spines:

In a conversation with Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) Lolita says "Ray" for hurray:

Describing his conversation with Lolita, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions "Ray," a word Lolita used for "hurray:"

Describing his stay at Silver Spur Court in Elphinstone (a little town in the Rockies where Lolita falls ill and is hospitalized), Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) mentions big Frank (Mrs. Hays's beau, a robust and kindly trucker) and a naked girl, with cinnabar nipples and indigo delta, charmingly tattooed on the back of his crippled left hand:

I heard the sound of whistling lips nearing the half-opened door of my cabin, and then a thump upon it.

In his Foreword to Humbert Humbert's manuscript John Ray, Jr. (a character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions Mr. "Windmuller," the "Ramsdale" lawyer who desires his identity suppressed so that “the long shadow of this sorry and sordid business” should not reach the community to which he is proud to belong:

Among the books that Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) brings Lolita (who fell ill and was hospitalized in Elphinstone) to the hospital are The History of Dancing and The Russian Ballet:

Describing his meeting with Lucette (Van's and Ada's half-sister) in Kingston (Van's American University), Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) compares a philosopher’s orbitless eye to a peeled hard-boiled egg and mentions Germanic grace with which the free eye sails around the glass sign and sees a left hand shining through:

At a party thrown by Pnin (the title character of a novel, 1957, by VN) there are real German pumpernickel (dark, dense German bread made from coarsely ground wholemeal rye) and a dish of very special vinaigrette: