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Vladimir Nabokov Museum, St.Petersburg celebrates VN's birthday with new exhibits
and events every year.
This year we prepared an exhibit entitled "Alphabet, Butterflies, Chess".
It opened on April 10, VN's "old calendar" birthday and
all the three themes are related to Nabokov's Petersburg
childhood.
Alexander Florensky, a well-known painter, did a full synaesthetical
alphabet.
Natalia Florenskaya, a professional illustrator of science editions,
contributed 32 drawings of VN's butterflies.
Yuri Molodkovetz did
an impressive series
of 32 photographs
representing chess motifs and butterfly images in the Hermitage
(his finds would have been an addition to Nabokov's unfinished work
on butterflies in art).
All the works were done specially for the exhibition in the Museum.
The exhibition runs through May 10.
On April 24 we will the hold the annual one-day conference and literary
readings. On April 25 we host a talk by Prof.Nina Khruscheva (USA), author
of "Visiting Nabokov". Also, a new documentary on Nabokov sights in
St.Petersburg (by G.Rudenko) will be shown on that day.
Tatiana O. Ponomareva
Director
Vladimir Nabokov Museum
#47 Bolshaya Morskaya
St.Petersburg 190000
Russia
mailto:tatiana@nabokovmuseum.org
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