That in Aleppo Once... | Author Biography
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was born on April 23, 1899, in St. Petersburg, Russia to an upper-class family. As a child, he and his brother enjoyed long walks at Vyra, his grandfather’s estate, as well as the attention of private tutors. He learned to read English and French before Russian. All of the passions that marked Nabokov’s adulthood (languages, literature, chess, lepidoptera—which is the study of insects such as butterflies and moths) were born in his happy childhood, which he describes in his 1951 memoir, Speak, Memory.
Nabokov’s father was a lecturer...
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