Museum V. V. Nabokova Butterfly Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Vast butterfly collection from the famous Russian Author Nabakov.
Nabokov was born here in 1899 to a family of wealthy and intellectual aristocrats. His father, Vladimir Dmitrievich, was a lawyer and leading figure in the Cadets – the Constitutional-Democratic Party – who helped to draught the constitution of the Provisional Government after the February Revolution of 1917. Forced to flee the country for good in 1919, the younger Nabokov retained achingly sharp memories of his beloved family home, particularly well documented in his autobiography Speak Memory.
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