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Why was Vladimir Nabokov interested in entomology?
Vladimir Nabokov's interest in entomology had been inspired by books of Maria Sibylla Merian he had found in the attic of his family's country home in Vyra.
Did Vladimir Nabokov do anything important regarding entomology?
During the 1940s, as a research fellow in zoology, Vladimir Nabokov was responsible for organizing the butterfly collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University.
What year did Vladimir Nabokov start to get into Entomology?
During the 1940s, as a research fellow in zoology, Vladimir Nabokov was responsible for organizing the butterfly collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University.
Does Vladimir Nabokov have anything displayed today?
The Harvard Museum of Natural History, which contains the Museum of Comparative Zoology, still possesses Vladimir Nabokov's genitalia cabinet, where the author stored his collection of male blue butterfly genitalia.

Question: Was his work critically successful?
Self-contained rewrite: Was Vladimir Nabokov's work critically successful?