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Re: "Gregor von Rezzori & the Nabokovs" (fwd)
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>From Earl Sampson (esampson@cu.campus.mci.net)
I have no comment of substance on Don's note of 2 February, just a nit to
pick. Probably most list subscribers noticed and mentally corrected for
themselves the error in the second paragraph, but just for the sake of
complete accuracy, let it be noted that Don inadvertently gave VN's father
the wrong name: "Princess Elizaveta Dmitrievna (Nabokova) Sayn-Wittgenstein
(1877-1944) was seven years younger than her brother Dmitri Nabokov,
Vladimir's father." VN's father was, of course, Vladimir Dmitrievich; his
grandfather, Dmitri (Nikolaevich). Elizaveta did have a brother Dmitri, but
he was VN's uncle, the eldest of V.D.'s siblings.
By the way, in the course of writing this note, it struck me for the first
time that VN's father was born in the same year, 1870, as Van Veen. Has
anyone commented on this?
In response to Don's recent request, my most recent VN publication is an
article, "Game, Set, Mismatch: On the Role of Tennis and Other Sports in
Nabokov's Fiction" (see VN Bibliography posting of 17 Jan).
I have no comment of substance on Don's note of 2 February, just a nit to
pick. Probably most list subscribers noticed and mentally corrected for
themselves the error in the second paragraph, but just for the sake of
complete accuracy, let it be noted that Don inadvertently gave VN's father
the wrong name: "Princess Elizaveta Dmitrievna (Nabokova) Sayn-Wittgenstein
(1877-1944) was seven years younger than her brother Dmitri Nabokov,
Vladimir's father." VN's father was, of course, Vladimir Dmitrievich; his
grandfather, Dmitri (Nikolaevich). Elizaveta did have a brother Dmitri, but
he was VN's uncle, the eldest of V.D.'s siblings.
By the way, in the course of writing this note, it struck me for the first
time that VN's father was born in the same year, 1870, as Van Veen. Has
anyone commented on this?
In response to Don's recent request, my most recent VN publication is an
article, "Game, Set, Mismatch: On the Role of Tennis and Other Sports in
Nabokov's Fiction" (see VN Bibliography posting of 17 Jan).