Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

In his translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (1964) VN renders the line V okno smotrel i mukh davil (Two: III: 4) as "looked through the window, and squashed flies:"

Describing his novel Letters from Terra, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Ada, 1969) mentions Nefzawi’s treatise on the best method of mating with obese or hunchbacked females:

Describing his meeting with Lucette (Van's and Ada's half-sister) in Paris at the end of May, 1901, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Ada, 1969) mentions Vivian Vale’s golden veils and The Chimes of Chose, a Sapsucker paperback on a book shelf in the lobby of Alphonse Four (Lucette's hotel):

In his Foreword to Humbert Humbert's manuscript John Ray, Jr. (a character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions his colleague, Dr. Blanche Schwarzmann:

Perusing old issues of the Briceland Gazette, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) finds out, among other things, that the size of certain parasites is one sixth of the host:

Walking past the grave of his wife Charlotte (Lolita's mother) at the Ramsdale cemetery, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) says "Bonzhur, Charlotte:" 

When Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) revisits Ramsdale in September 1952, Mrs. Chatfield wants to know had Humbert done to Dolly, perhaps, what Frank Lasalle, a fifty-year-old mechanic, had done to eleven-year-old Sally Horner in 1948:

In his Foreword to Humbert Humbert's manuscript John Ray, Jr. (a character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions Humbert's singing violin:

In his pocket diary that he kept at Ramsdale as Charlotte's lodger Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) compares himself to an inflated pale spider that sits in the middle of a luminous web and gives little jerks to this or that strand:

According to Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955), Gaston Godin (Humbert's friend and chess partner at Beardsley) got involved in a sale histoire, in Naples of all places: