Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

Accroding to Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969), in some fertile parts of Estoty the izba windows of large peasant families in which up to a dozen people of different size and sex slept on one blin-like mattress were ordered to be kept uncurtained at night:

Describing his failed visit to Villa Venus (Eric Veen's floramors), Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) metnions peripatetic Russian newspaper readers slowing down to a trance stop and then strolling again behind their wide open Estotskiya Vesti:

Describing his novel Letters from Terra, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions Khan Sosso and his ruthless Sovietnamur Khanate:

Ada’s letters breathed, writhed, lived; Van’s Letters from Terra, ‘a philosophical novel,’ showed no sign of life whatsoever.

(I disagree, it’s a nice, nice little book! Ada’s note.)

At the beginning of VN's novel Ada (1969) Van Veen (the narrator and main character) mentions Pontius Press (a publishing house) and 'Russian' Estoty (an American province):

Describing his reunion with Ada in 1922, after their longest, seventeen-year-long, separation, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Ada, 1969) compares himself to a Cartesian glassman:

Describing the difference between Terra and Antiterra (Earth's twin planet also known as Demonia), Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Ada, 1969) mentions Estoty (the American province extending from the Arctic no longer vicious Circle to the United States proper):

On Demonia (in VN's novel Ada, 1969, Earth's twin planet also known as Antiterra) 'Russia' is a quaint synonym of Estoty (the American province extending from the Arctic no longer vicious Circle to the United States proper) and Canada (a country in North America) is known as Canady:

Describing a conversation about religions in "Ardis the First," Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) uses the phrase "long before Moses:"

According to Kinbote (in VN's novel Pale Fire, 1962, Shade’s mad commentator who imagines that he is Charles the Beloved, the last self-exiled king of Zembla), it took Shade twenty days to write Pale Fire:

Describing Shade's murder by Gradus, Kinbote (in VN's novel Pale Fire, 1962, Shade’s mad commentator who imagines that he is Charles the Beloved, the last self-exiled king of Zembla) mentions his fury and hurry:

We had reached the Goldsworth side of the lane, and the flagged walk that scrambled along the side lawn to connect with the gravel path leading up from Dulwich Road to the Goldsworth front door, when Shade remarked, "You have a caller."