* 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

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

* Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift has the protagonist, Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, study Chernyshevsky and write the critical biography The Life of Chernychevski which represents Chapter Four of the novel.

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.

He was a black rabbi, who would go to upper Pennsylvania and purchase chicken, turkeys and ducks .” Solomon Burke had six younger siblings – a sister, Laurena Burke-Corbin ( born 23 June 1946 ), and five brothers: Elec Edward " Alec " ( born 16 February 1948 ), Vladimir H. " Laddie " ( born 31 July 1949 ), Mario " Chuck " ( born 13 September 1953 ), Daniel S. " Danny " ( born 10 March 1955 ), and Jolester R. M. Burke ( born 24 September 1958 ).

" Annabel Lee " was an inspiration for Vladimir Nabokov, especially for his novel Lolita ( 1955 ), in which the narrator, as a child, falls in love with the terminally ill Annabel Leigh " in a princedom by the sea ".

20th century erotic fiction includes such classics of the genre as: Suburban Souls ( 1901 ), published by Carrington and possibly written by him also ; The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt ( issued in three volumes 1902, 1903, 1906 ), probably by George Reginald Bacchus, printed by Duringe of Paris for Leonard Smithers in London ; Josephine Mutzenbacher ( 1906 ) by Felix Salten ; Sadopaideia ( 1907 ) by Anon ( possibly Algernon Charles Swinburne ); Les Mémoires d ' un jeune Don Juan ( 1907 ) and the somewhat disturbing Les onze mille verges ( 1907 ) by Guillaume Apollinaire ; The Way of a Man with a Maid ( 1908 ) and A Weekend Visit by Anon ; Pleasure Bound Afloat ( 1908 ), Pleasure Bound Ashore ( 1909 ) and Maudie ( 1909 ) by Anon ( probably George Reginald Bacchus ); Manuel de civilité pour les petites filles à l ' usage des maisons d ' éducation ( 1917 ) and Trois filles de leur mère ( 1926 ) by Pierre Louys ; Story of the Eye ( 1928 ) by Georges Bataille ; Tropic of Cancer ( 1934 ) and Tropic of Capricorn ( 1938 ) by Henry Miller ; The Story of O ( 1954 ) by Pauline Réage ; Helen and Desire ( 1954 ) and Thongs ( 1955 ) by Alexander Trocchi ; Ada, or Ardor ( 1969 ) by Vladimir Nabokov ; Journal ( 1966 ), Delta of Venus ( 1978 ) and Little Birds ( 1979 ) by Anaïs Nin and The Bicycle Rider ( 1985 ) by Guy Davenport.

In 1955 Vladimir re-settled into her mother's new home ( at 1st Meshanskaya, 76 ).

In 1955, Vladimir enrolled in the Moscow Institute of Civil Engineering ( МИСИ ), but dropped out after just one semester to pursue an acting career.

Antanas Merkys (; born on 1 February 1887 in Bajorai, near Skapiškis, Vilna Governorate of the Russian Empire ; died on 5 March 1955 in Vladimir Oblast, Soviet Union ) was the last Prime Minister of independent Lithuania, serving from November 1939 to June 1940.

He lived in Vladimir until his death the following year, on 5 March 1955.

Lolita is a 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokov.

* 1955: Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita

Vladimir Viktorovich Vinogradov ( Russian Владимир Викторович Виноградов ) ( 19 September 1955, Ufa — 29 June 2008, Moscow ) was the owner and president of Inkombank, one of the largest banks in 90s ' Russia.

Vladimir Viktorovich Vinogradov was born in 1955 in Ufa, Bashkiria.

* Clare Quilty is a fictional character in the 1955 novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

Vladimir Nabokov's controversial book Lolita ( 1955 ) is about a doomed relationship between a 12 year old girl and an adult scholar as they travel across the United States.

He trained many pianists, including Vladimir Ashkenazy ( winner of the second prize at the 1955 Chopin Competition ), Anatoly Dokumentov, Mikhail Voskresensky, Dmitri Sakharov, Alexander Bakhchiev, Andrei Egorov, Lev Natochenny, Boris Berman and Olga Kiun.

The band is named after a character in Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel, Lolita.

After having become acquainted with Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky by 1955, by which time El-Dabh he had been experimenting with electronic music for ten years, they later invited him to work at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in 1959 as one of the first outside composers there, where he would become one of the most influential composers associated with the early years of the studio.

* Vladimir Malakhov ( footballer ) ( born 1955 ), football ( soccer ) player

* Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, 1969 novel by Vladimir Nabokov

* 1953 – Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.

In the same time Vladimir Obruchev wrote a fiction novel Plutonia, where the hollow Earth's interior possessed one inner ( central ) sun and was inhabited by prehistoric species.

The 1915 novel Plutonia by Vladimir Obruchev uses the concept of the hollow Earth to take the reader through various geological epochs.

* Mary ( novel ), a 1926 debut novel by Vladimir Nabokov

* Mary ( novel ), by Vladimir Nabokov

The term was made famous in the novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

Retrospectively, " networking " of " data " in the Russian language can be traced to the spread of mail and journalism in Russia, and information transfer by technical means came to Russia with the telegraph and radio ( besides, a 1837 sci-fi novel Year 4338, by the 19-century Russian philosopher Vladimir Odoevsky, contains predictions such as " friends ' houses are connected by means of magnetic telegraphs that allow people who live far from each other to talk to each other " and " household journals " " having replaced regular correspondence " with " information about the hosts ’ good or bad health, family news, various thoughts and comments, small inventions, as well as invitations ").

These legends feature in certain works of fiction, including Vladimir Bartol's 1938 novel Alamut, and Simon Acland's First Crusade novels The Waste Land and The Flowers of Evil.

The screenplay was based on the novel The Defense ( or The Luzhin Defence ) by Vladimir Nabokov.

The 1948 Mann Act prosecution of Frank LaSalle for abducting Florence Sally Horner is believed to have been an inspiration for Vladimir Nabokov in writing his novel Lolita, whose protagonist Humbert Humbert seeks to escape watchful eyes and bind 13-year-old Dolores Haze more closely to him by taking the girl on a multistate road trip.

Despair is based upon the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, adapted by Tom Stoppard and featuring Dirk Bogarde.

In the Vladimir Nabokov novel Ada, or Ardor, in a letter to Marina after his duel with Baron D ' Onsky, Demon Veen tells her that he had gone to his aunt's ranch near Lolita, Texas.

* Camera Obscura, one of the translated titles of Laughter in the Dark, a 1932 novel by Vladimir Nabokov

Their eldest son was the writer and lepidopterist Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, who portrayed his father in his memoirs ( Speak, Memory, 1967 ); V. V. Nabokov included in his novel Pale Fire a scene of misdirected assassination evoking the death of his father.

* Norma ( novel ), by Vladimir Sorokin

As the novel Dune begins, House Harkonnen is headed by the cruel yet cunning Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.

These are the first lines of the poem " Pale Fire " by " John Shade ", a fictional poet created by Vladimir Nabokov, for his novel Pale Fire.

* Slovenian novelist Vladimir Bartol's novel Alamut ( 1938 ) reminded the West of the Assassin legends and stands as a canonical work of Slovene literature.

According to experts on the writing of Vladimir Nabokov, this species almost certainly inspired the waxwing mentioned prominently in his novel Pale Fire.