"Of the many ancestors along the wall, she pointed out her favorite, old Prince Vseslav Zemski (1699-1797), friend of Linnaeus and author of Flora Ladorica, who was portrayed in rich oil holding his barely pubescent bride and her blond doll in his satin lap
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After following "poor Salisburian" adventures, it occurred to me to click on "Nabokov Taxonomy" to investigate a bit more about him and Linnaeus via VN. Well..."Taxonomy and Nabokov are conjoined."  
Cf. Beginnings of a Taxonomic Adventure -- Words, Rules, and Butterflies
fossilsandotherlivingthings.blogspot.com/.../beginni...
 
I equally learned why a "red label" is mentioned in VN's poem "On Discovering a Butterfly".
Also that  "The butterfly in question, incidentally, was a pug moth named 'Eupithecia nabokovi' ... Be that as it may, on solving a couple more Nabokov charades, one is tempted to ask the otherworldly VN whether he himself has noticed that hiding in the scholarly name of his Eupithecia Nabokovi is a 'good monkey'." and "Of course poets have long espoused the conceit that words are the surest form of immortality - "Not marble, nor the gilded monuments / Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme" quoth the Bard - but Nabokov trumps even that with his "thus became [...] its first describer -- and I want no other fame." And although he says "it will transcend its dust", the temptation is irresistible to read, uperposed on the "it", a triumphant 'I'.".wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/.../on-discovering...
        -- http://www.usc.edu/dept/las/sll/eng/ess/nabpuzzl.htm
 
There's Brian Boyd's Stalking Nabokov: selected essays - Página 104 - Resultado da pesquisa de livros do Google
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and
Nabokov carried tradition of gentleman naturalist into mid-century ...
oregonstate.edu/.../nabokov-carried-tradition-gentle...
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and one related to Jakobson and a Salisbury steak eaten on a Friday: "When Roman Jakobson—great linguist, Harvard professor—was approached some years ago with the suggestion that Vladimir Nabokov might be appointed professor of Slavic, Jakobson was skeptical; he had nothing against elephants, he said, but he would not appoint one professor of zoology...The analogy compares the elegant and stylish Nabokov—novelist in various languages, lepidopterist, lecturer, and critic—to the great, gray, hulking pachyderm, intellectually noted only for memory. . . . By jokes and analogies we reveal ourselves. Jakobson condescends to Nabokov—just as Plato patted little Ion on his head, just as Sartre makes charitable exception for poets in What Is Literature?..." Classics | Narrative Magazine  www.narrativemagazine.com/taxonomy/term/19/0?...
 
and... a lot more! 
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