Vladimir Nabokov 
Subtitle: The Russian Years
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: January 11, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 622
ISBN-13: 9780691024707
Subjects: Biography: general; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Russian Novel And Short Story; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Russian; Biography/Autobiography; Literary; American Language and Literature; Biography & Autobiography / Literary; British Literature; Comparative Literature; Literature
First sentence: NABOKOV had left Russia in 1919 on a crowded little cargo ship, playing chess with his father on its deck as Bolshevik machine guns strafed the waters of Sebastopol harbor.