Nabokov's
house - the house in St. Petersburg , on the current at Bolshaya Morskaya
street, 47. It was in this house , Vladimir Nabokov was born in 1899.
Currently, the first floor of the house - museum of Vladimir
Nabokova.Soderzhanie [ remove]History of the HouseBetween 1897 and the October
Revolution house became the property of Nabokov , which they received as a
dowry from Rukavishnikova Helena ( mother of Vladimir Nabokov ) . Vladimir
Vladimirovich lived in the house until November 1917 .House thoroughly
described in his autobiography Other Shores (The Other Shores) and Speak,
Memory (Speak, Memory). For Vladimir this house was " the only house in
the world ."Subsequently , even when he became rich, he never acquired any
other home and preferred to live in hotels.Museum of Vladimir NabokovSince
April 1998, the first floor of the house ( called "family floor " at
the time of Nabokov ) is the "Museum of Vladimir Nabokov ," and the
two upper floors (" parent floor " and " children's floor "
) occupy the offices of the newspaper " Neva time ." The museum is a
"phone room ", " dining ", " library ", "
the committee room " (where most of the meetings were held of the
Constitutional Democratic Party ) and the "kitchen"
. Inside the House of NabokovInside the little that remains from the
time of the Nabokov family living in this house. Time and history nothing is
spared , except for the interiors of several rooms on the first and second
floors of the building and the old stained glass windows above the stairway leading
to the third floor .Nabokov's memorabilia , including personal belongings of
Vladimir Nabokov (index cards , pencils , glasses , playing Scrabble), as well
as books and other items related to his life and art, are the basis of the
museum's collection . The museum is dedicated to the memory of Vladimir
Nabokov's development and its artistic heritage and cultural values, both in
Russia and internationally. Museum - not only the house and exhibits related to
the life and environment of Nabokov , but the museum also provides a research
library for scholars and conducts numerous activities : reading the works of
Nabokov and those whom he admired (such as Anton Chekhov and James Joyce )
lectures by international or national conferences (" Nabokov and Russia
", " Nabokov and England ", " Nabokov and France ",
" Nabokov and Germany ", " Nabokov and the United States of
America "), an annual international summer school Nabokov exhibition of
objects related to Nabokov . The activities of the Museum of Nabokov has
regular support of leading scientists from around the world .The museum is part
of the Philological Faculty of St. Petersburg State University