* 1958 – Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.

* The character of Ada and her home Ardis Hall in the Ilium cycle are inspired by Vladimir Nabokov's novel Ada or Ardor, which was Nabokov's foray into the science fiction genre and alternate history.

Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire is a particularly elaborate variation.

An example of this is Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire, the second section of which is a 999 line, 4 canto poem largely written in loose heroic couplets but also allowing for frequent enjambment.

* Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift

* September 15 – Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in Paris by Olympia Press.

* Nabokov's Dozen ( 1958 ), a collection of 13 short stories by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov previously published in American magazines

* Nabokov's Congeries, a collection of work by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov published in 1968 and reprinted in 1971 as The Portable Nabokov

* ( 1955 ) In Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Humbert Humbert's childhood sweetheart, Annabel Leigh, dies of typhus.

* Two song settings of Vladimir Nabokov's poem " Provence " in Russian and English versions by composers Ivan Barbotin and James DeMars on the 2011 contemporary classical album Troika.

* Van Veen, the main character of Vladimir Nabokov's Ada or Ardor

* Ada in Vladimir Nabokov's Ada has dreams as a young girl of being a lepidopterist on the fictional planet ' anti-terra '.

* In Vladimir Nabokov's short story, Signs and Symbols, initially published in 1948, the parents of a suicidal youth suffering from a variation of this disease, " Referential Mania ", decide to remove him from a hospital in order to keep a more watchful eye.

Aeolian harps are mentioned in Vladimir Nabokov's classic Lolita.

* Dar, Russian title of Vladimir Nabokov's book The Gift

Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel, Lolita, utilizes deus ex machina to drive its plot forward: In Chapter 21 of the novel, Charlotte Haze, Humbert Humbert's recent wife and the mother of Dolores " Lolita " Haze, is killed by a moving car in the street.

* In Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, a character checks into a motel under the pseudonym A.

Vineland may be a play on the word " Hollywood ", a reference to the first Viking settlement in North America, Vinland, or a reference to Andrey Vinelander, a character in Vladimir Nabokov's Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle.

* In Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, the main plot is told through the annotative endnotes of a fictional editor.

However, critical response to Imitations was mixed and sometimes hostile ( as was the case with Vladimir Nabokov's public response to Lowell's Mandelstam translations ).

The Bobolink is also one of the many important ornithological references in Vladimir Nabokov's John Shade's poem " Pale Fire " in the novel of the same name:

Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is often described as an erotic novel, but other critics view it more as a literary drama with elements of eroticism.

The phrase is a reference to Vladimir Nabokov's book Lolita, in which a middle-aged man becomes sexually obsessed with a twelve-year-old girl.

* The Gift ( Nabokov novel ), a 1938 novel by Vladimir Nabokov

Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island switches between third and first person, as do Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift.

The Gift (; ISBN 0-679-72725-6 ) is Vladimir Nabokov's final Russian novel, and is considered to be his farewell to the world he was leaving behind.

The balalaika orchestra in its full form — balalaikas, domras, gusli, bayan, kugiklas, Vladimir Shepherd's Horns, garmoshkas and several types of percussion instruments — has a distinctive sound: strangely familiar to the ear, yet decidedly not entirely Western European.

The term is still found in use in Russia today ( for example, President Vladimir Putin has been referred to in the Russian media as a " chekist " due to his career in the KGB ).

Cronenberg has cited William S. Burroughs and Vladimir Nabokov as influences.

Ecology also has developed through contributions from other nations, including Russia's Vladimir Vernadsky and his founding of the biosphere concept in the 1920s and Japan's Kinji Imanishi and his concepts of harmony in nature and habitat segregation in the 1950s.

It has been questioned whether President Tarja Halonen represented only Finland or the entire EU when she met with President of Russia Vladimir Putin.

Hildegard's reincarnation has been debated since 1924 when Austrian mystic Rudolf Steiner lectured that a nun of her description was the past life of Russian poet Vladimir Soloviev, whose Sophianic visions are often compared to Hildegard.

Meanwhile Captain Viktor Tupolev, a former student of Ramius who now commands a Soviet Alfa-class attack submarine named after Vladimir Konovalov, has been trailing what he at first believes is an Ohio-class submarine.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (; born 7 October 1952 ) is a Russian politician who has been the General Secretary of the United Russia since 1 January 2008, and the President of Russia since 7 May 2012.

" His friend Vladimir takes up the thought and muses on it, the implication being that nothing is a thing that has to be done and this pair is going to have to spend the rest of the play doing it.

Vladimir tries to talk to him about what appears to be a seasonal change in the tree and the proceedings of the day before, but he has only a vague recollection.

The boy in Act I, a local lad, assures Vladimir that this is the first time he has seen him.

This reading is given further weight early in the first act when Estragon asks Vladimir what it is that he has requested from Godot:

That the play calls on only male actors, with scarcely a reference to women, has caused some to look upon Vladimir and Estragon's relationship as quasi-marital: " they bicker, they embrace each other, they depend upon each other

As with the shortened rule of Vladimir Lenin, speculators have much room to advocate their favourite theories and to develop the minor cult of personality which has formed around him.

The rozhok (‘ little horn ’) of the Vladimir and Tver ( Kalinin ) districts, however, may be a rural offshoot of the straight cornett ; it has a separate mouthpiece ( which some players place to the side of the lips ) and is made in two or more sizes for playing music in parts.

Putin has confronted several very influential oligarchs ( Vladimir Gusinsky, Boris Berezovsky and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, in particular ) who attained large stakes of state assets, allegedly through illegal schemes, during the privatization process.

He wrote to Vladimir Stasov, " he mighty Koocha has degenerated into soulless traitors.

Among other honors, the Vladimir M. Komarov Astronautical Rocketry Club ( ARK ) in Ljubljana has also borne Komarov's name since 1969.

Influenced by Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov, and James Joyce, as well as by his father, Kingsley Amis, he has inspired a generation of writers with his distinctive style, including Will Self and Zadie Smith.

The juxtaposition of the poverty, homelessness, exploitive work conditions, prostitution, and infant mortality of Whitechapel and other East End locales with some of the greatest personal wealth the world has ever seen made it a focal point for leftist reformers and revolutionaries of all kinds, from George Bernard Shaw, whose Fabian Society met regularly in Whitechapel, to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, who boarded and led rallies in Whitechapel during his exile from Russia.

There has been some speculation that the identity of this officer was Oleg Penkovsky, however during his radio interview to Russian station Echo of Moscow Vladimir Rezun ( alias Victor Suvorov ) denied this, saying " I never mentioned it was Penkovsky " No executed GRU traitors ( Penkovsky aside ) are known matching scant Suvorov's description given in " Aquarium "

The authorities of SFR Yugoslavia conducted a population survey in 1964 that showed a far lower figure, but kept it a secret ; when Vladimir Žerjavić published such lower figures in the 1980s, he was criticized by Antun Miletić among others, but his research has since been considered trustworthy by authorities on World War II Yugoslav history such as Jozo Tomasevich. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ( USHMM ) in Washington, D. C. presently estimates that the Ustaša regime murdered between 77, 000 and 99, 000 people in Jasenovac between 1941 and 1945.

Vladimir Putin has attracted many devout followers and even has a sect of women who worships him.