Born in the aristocratic family, Vladimir inherited great features of his parents—'' a strong work ethic and a love for butterflies" from his father, and ''a creative sensibility and innate spirituality'' from his mother (Zimmer et al. 1) . The Nabokovs were well-respected and extremely wealth family, but things had changed when Vladimir's father accepted an opposition side against the Bolsheviks, who had came to power in Russia in 1918;therefore, the whole family had to escape the country, stalked by intimidation and fear of assassination. In 1919 family arrived to London, and the same year Vladimir and his brother enrolled in Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was quite successful in English, French and Russian literature. In 1922 he graduates Cambridge, and joins his family in Berlin, where he meets his Vera Slonim, who he marries three years later. These years, a steady stream of his works in Russian began to emerge, such as ''Mary" and ''The Gift'', but unfortunately, he wasn't wadely famous and popular outside of the Russian community. For a quite short period of time Vladimir Nabokov and his family had been living in Paris, where he wrote his first novel in …show more content…
Nabokov was a well-known and respected entomologist in the United States, who wrote several studies for the Museum of Natural History in New York. The museum even paid him to do the entomological drawings for their exhibitions. The writer could quite successfully reconcile his scientific work with lecturing in Stanford, Harvard, and Cornell Universities, in the meantime, publishing scholarly articles, and these years, as Nabokov mentioned himself, were the happiest years of his