Dmitri Vladimirovich Nabokov (born May 10 1934) is an American opera singer and translator. He is the only child of writer Vladimir Nabokov and his wife Vera Nabokov, and is currently executor of his father's literary estate.
Dmitri Nabokov was born on May 10, 1934, in Berlin, to Vladimir Nabokov and Vera Slonim Nabokov. Due to Nazi Germany's growing political and social repression and the likelihood that the regime might target the family based ...
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Dmitri Vladimirovich Nabokov (born May 10 1934) is an American opera singer and translator. He is the only child of writer Vladimir Nabokov and his wife Vera Nabokov, and is currently executor of his father's literary estate.
Dmitri Nabokov was born on May 10, 1934, in Berlin, to Vladimir Nabokov and Vera Slonim Nabokov. Due to Nazi Germany's growing political and social repression and the likelihood that the regime might target the family based on Vera Nabokov's Jewish ancestry, the Nabokovs fled to Paris in 1937, and immigrated to New York City in 1940. Dmitri Nabokov subsequently grew up there, in the Boston area during the years that his father taught at Wellesley College and served as curator of lepidoptery at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology, and in Ithaca while his father taught at Cornell University.
Nabokov entered Harvard College in 1951, lived in Lowell House, and studied History and Literature. Although he scored high on the LSAT and was accepted to...
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