There are several English translations, including one by Vladimir Nabokov and Dmitri Nabokov in 1958.

with Dmitri Nabokov.

The thirteen stories not previously published in English are translated by the author's son, Dmitri Nabokov.

In April 2008, Nabokov's son Dmitri Nabokov announced plans to publish the work, in what BBC2 late night news programme Newsnight later said was " likely to be the literary event of 2009.

Dmitri noted that Vera Nabokov " failed to carry out this task, her procrastination due, ' to age, weakness and immeasurable love.

In 1991 Vera died, leaving Dmitri Nabokov as the sole literary executor.

The journalist Ron Rosenbaum, who corresponded with Dmitri Nabokov, said that the son had been inclined toward destroying the manuscript, swayed by criticism of his father, such as allegations of plagiarism that arose from the discovery of a 1916 German short story, " Lolita " with some similarities to Nabokov's work, or critics who had interpreted Nabokov's work as suggesting that Nabokov was sexually abused.

In April 2008 Dmitri Nabokov told many publications, including Nabokov Online Journal and Der Spiegel, that he intended to publish the manuscript after all.

Once Dmitri decided to publish the manuscript, " several short excerpts were published in advance-in the Sunday Times Magazine and also Playboy, to which Nabokov was a contributor.

In the late 1990s Dmitri Nabokov read a portion of the book to a group of about 20 scholars at a centenary celebration of his father at Cornell University.

The essay, supposedly written by a Swiss scholar named Michel Desommelier, included concocted passages from Laura that fooled scholars and even Dmitri Nabokov.

The book also includes an introduction by Dmitri Nabokov about the writing of the book and his decision to publish it.

* Dmitri Nabokov ( opera singer and translator )

The publisher's note to the first edition explains the reason for the two editions: a detailed " Introductory Note " by Dmitri Nabokov, the author's son, had arrived too late for inclusion in the first.

The school as it appeared in the early 1950s is portrayed under the name " St. Bart's " in the novel Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov, whose son Dmitri attended the school.

In 1998, a contract dispute between Dumont and the team led to the Islanders to trade him to the Chicago Blackhawks along with a 5th round pick in exchange for Dmitri Nabokov.

The discovery of the chemical elements has a long history from the days of alchemy and culminating in the creation of the periodic table of the chemical elements by Dmitri Mendeleev ( 1834 – 1907 ) and later discoveries of some synthetic elements.

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich ( 25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975 ) was a Soviet Russian composer and pianist and a prominent figure of 20th century music.

* 1994 – Dmitri Ivanenko, Russian physicist ( b. 1904 )

* 1869 – Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician ( d. 1931 )

* 1975 – Dmitri Khokhlov, Russian footballer

Nevertheless, composers continued to write and study fugues for various purposes ; they appear in the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( 1756 – 1791 ) and Ludwig van Beethoven ( 1770 – 1827 ), as well as modern composers such as Dmitri Shostakovich ( 1906 – 1975 ).

* 1964 – Dmitri Lipskerov, Russian writer

* 1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.

* 1983 – Dmitri Sychev, Russian footballer

* 1973 – Dmitri Young, American baseball player

* 1962 – Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian baritone

The most famous of 19th-century Tolstoy politicians was Count Dmitri Andreevich ( 1823 – 89 ), successively the Minister of Education, Minister of Interior and President of the Academy of Science.

* March 5 – Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, Russian royal ( b. 1891 )

* February 2 – Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist ( b. 1834 )

* September 25 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer ( d. 1975 )

* December 30 – Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky, Russian composer ( d. 1987 )

* October 19 – Dmitri Ivanovich, Russian Tsarevich ( d. 1591 )

* May 19 – Vasili I becomes Grand Prince of Moscow after the death of his father, Dmitri Donskoi.

* May 19 – Dmitri Donskoi, Grand Prince of Muscovy ( b. 1350 )

* September 8 – Battle of Kulikovo: Russian forces under Grand Prince Dmitri Donskoi of Moscow resist a large invasion by the Blue Horde, Lithuania and Ryazan, stopping their advance at Kulikovo.

* June 20 – Pretender Dmitri and his supporters march to Moscow ; he is crowned the next month.

* July 21 – Pretender Dmitri is officially crowned Tsar Dmitri II.

* Dmitri Kuznetsov ( born 1965 ), Russian former footballer and he has served famous club RCD Espanyol in Spain.

This patriotic song was written by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1951 ( opus 86 ), with words by Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky.

The cast included Fyodor Shalyapin ( Boris ), Klavdiya Tugarinova ( Fyodor ), Dagmara Renina ( Kseniya ), Yelizaveta Petrenko ( Nurse ), Ivan Alchevsky ( Shuysky ), Nikolay Kedrov ( Shchelkalov ), Vladimir Kastorsky ( Pimen ), Dmitri Smirnov ( Pretender ), Nataliya Yermolenko-Yuzhina ( Marina ), Vasiliy Sharonov ( Varlaam ), Vasiliy Doverin-Kravchenko ( Misail ), Mitrofan Chuprïnnikov ( Yuródivïy ), and Khristofor Tolkachev ( Nikitich ).

His creations include such masterpieces as Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony-Concerto, Dmitri Shostakovich's two cello concertos, Benjamin Britten's Cello-Symphony ( which emphasizes, as its title suggests, the equal importance of soloist and orchestra ), Henri Dutilleux ' Tout un monde lointain, Witold Lutosławski's cello concerto, Dmitri Kabalevsky's two cello concertos, Aram Khachaturian's Concerto-Rhapsody, Arvo Pärt's Pro et Contra, Alfred Schnittke, André Jolivet and Krzysztof Penderecki second cello concertos, Sofia Gubaidulina's Canticles of the Sun, Luciano Berio's Ritorno degli Snovidenia, Leonard Bernstein's Three Meditations, James MacMillan's cello concerto and Olivier Messiaen's Concert à quatre ( a quadruple concerto for cello, piano, oboe, flute and orchestra ).

Dmitri Shostakovich quoted " La Marseillaise " at some length during the fifth reel of the film score he composed for the 1929 silent movie, The New Babylon ( set during the Paris Commune ), where it is juxtaposed contrapuntally with the famous " Can-can " from Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld.

Notable Russian scientists include Dmitri Mendeleev, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Andrei Kolmogorov, Ivan Pavlov, Nikolai Semyonov, Dmitri Ivanenko, Nikolai Lobachevsky, Alexander Lodygin, Alexander Popov ( one of inventors of radio ), Nikolai Zhukovsky, Alexander Prokhorov and Nikolay Basov ( co-inventors of laser ), Georgiy Gamov, Vladimir Zworykin, Lev Pontryagin, Sergei Sobolev, Pavel Yablochkov, Aleksandr Butlerov, Andrei Sakharov, Dmitry Ivanovsky, Sergey Korolyov and Mstislav Keldysh ( creators of the Soviet space program ), Aleksandr Lyapunov, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Andrei Tupolev, Yuri Denisyuk ( the first practicable method of holography ), Mikhail Lomonosov, Vladimir Vernadsky, Pyotr Kapitsa, Igor Sikorsky, Ludvig Faddeev, Zhores Alferov, Konstantin Novoselov, Fyodor Shcherbatskoy, Nikolai Trubetzkoy etc.