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Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov.
During his years of European exile following his departure from Russia in 1919, Vladimir Nabokov lived primarily in Germany and France.1
After initially moving to England to attend the University of Cambridge, he settled in Berlin, where he lived for a significant period and published his early works. Later, he also resided in Paris before eventually emigrating to the United States in 1940. Throughout this period of emigration, he was active within the intellectual Russian émigré communities in both Berlin and Paris.12