Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

In VN’s novel Lolita (1955) the number 342 reappears three times. 342 Lawn Street is the address of the Haze house in Ramsdale. 342 is Humbert Humbert's and Lolita's room in The Enchanted Hunters (a hotel in Briceland where they spend their first night together). According to Humbert Humbert, between July 5 and November 18, 1949, he registered (if not actually stayed) at 342 hotels, motels and tourist homes.

In his Index 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) mentions taynik (secret place) and potaynik (hiding place) where the Zemblan crown jewels are hidden:

Potaynik; taynik (q. v.).

According to 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), the Zemblan Revolution broke out on May 1, 1958:

According to 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), Jakob Gradus (Shade's murderer) called himself variously Jack Degree or Jacques de Grey, or James de Gray, and also appears in police records as Ravus, Ravenstone, and d'Argus:

In VN’s story Lik (1939) Koldunov calls Lik sukin kot (son of a bitch):

- Нет, я это все понимаю,- сказал Лик,- только извини, мне нехорошо, я должен идти, скоро нужно в театр.

In VN’s novel Priglashenie na kazn’ (“Invitation to a Beheading,” 1935) Marthe (Cincinnatus's unfaithful wife) tells her husband that all kinds of fruit are good for her:

In VN’s novel Priglashenie na kazn’ (“Invitation to a Beheading,” 1935) young Cincinnatus spent the evenings in the Floating Library, in memoriam of Dr Sineokov:

At the beginning of VN’s novel Priglashenie na kazn’ (“Invitation to a Beheading,” 1935) the jailer Rodion enters Cincinnatus's cell and offers Cincinnatus tur val'sa (to dance a waltz with him):

In VN’s novel Look at the Harlequins! (1974) Other Books by the Narrator include Krasnyy Tsilindr (The Red Top Hat, 1934):

In 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) quotes Shade's words about their common acquaintance, "The man is as corny as a cook-out chef apron:"