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Born in Russia, Nabokov was forced to flee the country at the age of 19, due to [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober some revolution or other]], which left him with very anti-communist feelings. His father was a liberal politican and member of the provisional government after the February Revolution. After the rise of the Bolsheviks, he and his family went to Berlin, but Nabokov's father ended up [[ShootTheShaggyDog being assassinated by pro-Tsarist]] right-winger Sergey Taboritsky[[note]]Yes, ''[[VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope that]]'' Taboritsky[[/note]] while trying to stop him from assassinating Pavel Milyukov, leader of Liberal Kadets. This episode is reflected in many of Nabokov's writings. He spent the next two decades in Europe writing novels in Russian, then brought his family to the United States [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII in 1940]], where he taught literature and wrote novels in English (making him one of very few authors to be able to write good literature in more than one language).[[note]]He's been compared to Creator/JosephConrad, a Pole who wrote in English,but the comparison is inexact as Conrad wrote ''only'' in English[[/note]] The controversial subject matter of [[Literature/{{Lolita}} one of these]] made him very famous, and he was able to quit teaching and write full time. Eventually he settled in Switzerland, where he continued writing novels in English, and died in 1977.
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Born in Russia, Nabokov was forced to flee the country at the age of 19, due to [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober some revolution or other]], which left him with very anti-communist feelings. His father was a liberal politican and member of the provisional government after the February Revolution. After the rise of the Bolsheviks, he and his family went to Berlin, but Nabokov's father ended up [[ShootTheShaggyDog being assassinated by pro-Tsarist]] right-winger Sergey Taboritsky[[note]]Yes, ''[[VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope that]]'' Taboritsky[[/note]] while trying to stop him from assassinating Pavel Milyukov, leader of Liberal Kadets. This episode is reflected in many of Nabokov's writings. He spent the next two decades in Europe writing novels in Russian, then brought his family to the United States [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII in 1940]], where he taught literature and wrote novels in English (making him one of very few authors to be able to write good literature in more than one language).[[note]]He's been compared to Creator/JosephConrad, a Pole who wrote in English,but the comparison is inexact as Conrad wrote ''only'' in English[[/note]] The controversial subject matter of [[Literature/{{Lolita}} one of these]] made him very famous, and he was able to quit teaching and write full time. time.
Eventually he and his family settled in Switzerland, where he continued writing novels in English, and eventually died at the age of 78 in1977.
July 1977. Despite insisting in his will that all copies of his final, incomplete novel, ''The Original of Laura'', should be burned, his son and executor of his literary estate, Dmitri Nabokov, ended up publishing it posthumously in 2009.
Eventually he and his family settled in Switzerland, where he continued writing novels in English, and eventually died at the age of 78 in
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Born in Russia, Nabokov was forced to flee the country at the age of 19, due to [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober some revolution or other]], which left him with very anti-communist feelings. His father was a liberal politican and member of the provisional government after the February Revolution. After the rise of the Bolsheviks, he and his family went to Berlin, but Nabokov's father ended up [[ShootTheShaggyDog being assassinated by pro-Tsarist]] right-winger Sergey Taboritsky[[note]]Yes, [[VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope that]] ''[[VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope that]]'' Taboritsky[[/note]] while trying to stop him from assassinating Pavel Milyukov, leader of Liberal Kadets. This episode is reflected in many of Nabokov's writings. He spent the next two decades in Europe writing novels in Russian, then brought his family to the United States [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII in 1940]], where he taught literature and wrote novels in English (making him one of very few authors to be able to write good literature in more than one language).[[note]]He's been compared to Creator/JosephConrad, a Pole who wrote in English,but the comparison is inexact as Conrad wrote ''only'' in English[[/note]] The controversial subject matter of [[Literature/{{Lolita}} one of these]] made him very famous, and he was able to quit teaching and write full time. Eventually he settled in Switzerland, where he continued writing novels in English, and died in 1977.
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Born in Russia, Nabokov was forced to flee the country at the age of 19, due to [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober some revolution or other]], which left him with very anti-communist feelings. His father was a liberal politican and member of the provisional government after the February Revolution. After the rise of the Bolsheviks, he and his family went to Berlin, but Nabokov's father ended up [[ShootTheShaggyDog being assassinated by pro-Tsarist]] right-winger Sergey Taboritsky[[note]]Yes, [[VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope that]] Taboritsky[[/note]] while trying to stop him from assassinating someone else. This episode is reflected in many of Nabokov's writings. He spent the next two decades in Europe writing novels in Russian, then brought his family to the United States [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII in 1940]], where he taught literature and wrote novels in English (making him one of very few authors to be able to write good literature in more than one language).[[note]]He's been compared to Creator/JosephConrad, a Pole who wrote in English,but the comparison is inexact as Conrad wrote ''only'' in English[[/note]] The controversial subject matter of [[Literature/{{Lolita}} one of these]] made him very famous, and he was able to quit teaching and write full time. Eventually he settled in Switzerland, where he continued writing novels in English, and died in 1977.
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Born in Russia, Nabokov was forced to flee the country at the age of 19, due to [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober some revolution or other]], which left him with very anti-communist feelings. His father was a liberal politican and member of the provisional government after the February Revolution. After the rise of the Bolsheviks, he and his family went to Berlin, but Nabokov's father ended up [[ShootTheShaggyDog being assassinated by pro-Tsarist]] right-winger Sergey Taboritsky[[note]]Yes, [[VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope that]] Taboritsky[[/note]] while trying to stop him from assassinating someone else.Pavel Milyukov, leader of Liberal Kadets. This episode is reflected in many of Nabokov's writings. He spent the next two decades in Europe writing novels in Russian, then brought his family to the United States [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII in 1940]], where he taught literature and wrote novels in English (making him one of very few authors to be able to write good literature in more than one language).[[note]]He's been compared to Creator/JosephConrad, a Pole who wrote in English,but the comparison is inexact as Conrad wrote ''only'' in English[[/note]] The controversial subject matter of [[Literature/{{Lolita}} one of these]] made him very famous, and he was able to quit teaching and write full time. Eventually he settled in Switzerland, where he continued writing novels in English, and died in 1977.
