NABOKV-L post 0011616, Sun, 10 Jul 2005 09:56:58 -0700

EDNOTE. Can someone clarify this? Thanks. Don

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Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 18:25:53 -0800
From: Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
Reply-To: Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
Subject: question regarding Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum

Dear Don,

Strangely enough there seems to be some discrepancy in determining the
birthdate of Nabokov's father. In Speak Memory it is given as "July 20,
1870" which appears to be the Julian (New Style) date. However there are two
quite different Gregorian (Old Style) dates - - July 8 and July 15. All the
internet sources including the Nabokov Genealogy site
(http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/nfw01/nfw01_003.htm) give the July 15
date. However neither the 8th or the 15th Old Style will yield the 20th New
Style.

To complicate matters further, Alexey Sklyarenko (The Nabokovian No. 53)
insists that Speak Memory was off by one day, and that the correct date is
July 21.

Can anyone clarify?

thanks,
Carolyn

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