Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

In his commentary and 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 his uncle Conmal, the Zemblan translator of Shakespeare:

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 king saw Disa for the first time at a masked ball in his uncle’s palace:

At the end of 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 the words of his Zemblan nurse,  "Minnamin, Gut mag alkan, Pern dirstan (my darling, God makes hungry, the Devil thirsty):"

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), Oleg Gusev (Charles Xavier Vseslav's beloved playmate) was killed in a toboggan accident:

Oleg, Duke of Rahl, 1916-1931, son of Colonel Gusev, Duke of Rahl (b .1885, still spry); K.'s beloved playmate, killed in a toboggan accident, 130. (Index)

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), he became a vegetarian after reading a story about an Italian despot:

In his little pocket diary that he kept in Ramsdale as Charlotte's lodger Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) describes a dream ride around the lake:

Describing the European period of his existence, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) mentions Hugh Broughton, a writer of controversy in the reign of James the First, who has proved that Rahab was a harlot at ten years of age:

Describing his life with Charlotte (Lolita's mother) in Ramsdale (a small town in New England), Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) mentions Hourglass Lake (a woodlake near Ramsdale):

In his foreword to Humbert Humbert's manuscript John Ray, Jr. (a character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions his reading lamp:

In an attempt to save his life Clare Quilty (a playwright and pornographer whom Humbert Humbert murders for abducting Lolita from the Elphinstone hospital) tries to seduce Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) with his collection of erotica and mentions the in folio de-luxe Bagration Island by the explorer and psychoanalyst Melanie Weiss, with photographs of eight hundred and something male organs she examined and measured in 1932 on Bagration, in the Barda Sea, very illuminating graphs, pl