Gene Barabtarlo was a gentleman, a conscientious and highly learned
scholar, a great Nabokovian, an excellent linguist… and a friend. I
first met him in June 1992. I had invited him to the first Nice
The news of Gennady Aleksandrovich Barabtarlo’s passing should not have caught me off-guard, but I must confess to finding myself lost for words at a moment that I knew would be coming.
