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How was Vladimir Nabokov’s father assassinated in Berlin in 1922?
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In 1922, after the family had settled in Berlin, Vladimir Nabokov’s father, V.D. Nabokov, was assassinated by a reactionary rightist while he was shielding another man at a public meeting.1