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How did the assassination of Vladimir Nabokov’s father appear as a theme in his fiction?
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Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov.
In 1922, Vladimir Nabokov’s father, V.D. Nabokov, was assassinated by a reactionary rightist while shielding another man at a public meeting in Berlin. Although Vladimir Nabokov himself disclaimed any direct influence of this tragic event upon his creative work, the theme of assassination by mistake has appeared prominently throughout his novels.1