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From: D. Barton Johnson <chtodel@cox.net>
Based on Gene Barabtarlo's info I checked vols. 35-38 of Literaturnoe
nasledstvo (1939) and did find the trudging Tolstoi w/ horse but not
Meredith photo. There were a couple of others shots of that carved porch but
from too far away to make out the pattern. Other sources elsewhere provided
better shots of the balastrade posts. I hope to run it all down when I get
back--unless someone can fill us in.
Don Johnson
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From: "Galya Diment" <galya@u.washington.edu>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: Tolstoy's Ghost/The Vane Sisters (fwd)
> From: Mary Bellino <iambe@rcn.com>
>
> There is another photograph of Tolstoy described in Pnin:
>
> "a snapshot of a Russian pasture with Lyov Tolstoy trudging
> across it toward the camera and some long-maned horses
> behind him" (p. 73 of the first ed.)
>
> Gennady Barabtarlo (Phantom of Fact 132) identifies this
> picture with one appearing in the book that was the "model"
> for the Zol. Fond Lit. tome that plays a part in chapter 3
> of Pnin: vol 37-38 of the Literaturnoe Nasledstvo series
> (begun 1931); the volume is entitled "L.N. Tolstoy." Can
> anyone tell us whether the photograph posted by Meredith
> Brosnan also appears in that volume? Or should we be looking
> elsewhere for Nabokov's source for the photo?
>
> Mary
Based on Gene Barabtarlo's info I checked vols. 35-38 of Literaturnoe
nasledstvo (1939) and did find the trudging Tolstoi w/ horse but not
Meredith photo. There were a couple of others shots of that carved porch but
from too far away to make out the pattern. Other sources elsewhere provided
better shots of the balastrade posts. I hope to run it all down when I get
back--unless someone can fill us in.
Don Johnson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Galya Diment" <galya@u.washington.edu>
To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: Tolstoy's Ghost/The Vane Sisters (fwd)
> From: Mary Bellino <iambe@rcn.com>
>
> There is another photograph of Tolstoy described in Pnin:
>
> "a snapshot of a Russian pasture with Lyov Tolstoy trudging
> across it toward the camera and some long-maned horses
> behind him" (p. 73 of the first ed.)
>
> Gennady Barabtarlo (Phantom of Fact 132) identifies this
> picture with one appearing in the book that was the "model"
> for the Zol. Fond Lit. tome that plays a part in chapter 3
> of Pnin: vol 37-38 of the Literaturnoe Nasledstvo series
> (begun 1931); the volume is entitled "L.N. Tolstoy." Can
> anyone tell us whether the photograph posted by Meredith
> Brosnan also appears in that volume? Or should we be looking
> elsewhere for Nabokov's source for the photo?
>
> Mary