Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

In VN’s novel Ada (1969) Van, Ada and their half-sister Lucette are the children of Venus:

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 Humbert and Lolita 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 VN's novel Ada (1969) Van and Ada find out that they are brother and sister thanks to Marina's old herbarium that they discovered in the attic of Ardis Hall:

At the end of his Commentary 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 a bigger, more respectable, more competent Gradus who will presently ring at his door:

"And you, what will you be doing with yourself, poor King, poor Kinbote?" a gentle young voice may inquire.

Describing the poltergeist phenomena in Shade's house, 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 one of Aunt Maud's oils (Cypress and Bat):

Describing his life with Lolita at Beardsley, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) mentions a Dr. Ilse Tristramson:

In his diary Gumbert Gumbert (Humbert Humbert's name in the Russian Lolita, 1967) calls Lolita's mother gnusnaya Geyzikha:

Describing the childhood travels of Ada and Lucette with their mother, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions Marina’s friend, the theatrical big shot, Gran D. du Mont:

According to Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955), his mother was a granddaughter of two Dorset parsons, experts in obscure subjects - paleopedology and Aeolian harps, respectively:

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: