One day, we celebrated my friend's birthday. He has a little sister. When everybody was having fun, we found out that his sister had disappeared. She was nowhere. Her brother asked our friends to help him to find her, but nobody agreed except me and my close friend. We started to look for her. We searched for her everywhere. Asked neighbors. Finally, we foundher in the attic, she was sitting with her Teddy bear. Then we continued to celebrate his birthday, but we were only four, without those who refused to help us in such a difficult situation.
Nabokov's house - the house in St. Petersburg , on the current at Bolshaya Morskaya street, 47. It was in this house , Vladimir Nabokov was born in 1899. Currently, the first floor of the house - museum of Vladimir Nabokova.Soderzhanie [ remove]History of the HouseBetween 1897 and the October Revolution house became the property of Nabokov , which they received as a dowry from Rukavishnikova Helena ( mother of Vladimir Nabokov ) . Vladimir Vladimirovich lived in the house until November 1917 .House thoroughly described in his autobiography Other Shores (The Other Shores) and Speak, Memory (Speak, Memory). For Vladimir this house was " the only house in the world ."Subsequently , even when he became rich, he never acquired any other home and preferred to live in hotels.Museum of Vladimir NabokovSince April 1998, the first floor of the house ( called "family floor " at the time of Nabokov ) is the "Museum of Vladimir Nabokov ," and the two upper floors (" parent floor " and " children's floor " ) occupy the offices of the newspaper " Neva time ." The museum is a "phone room ", " dining ", " library ", " the committee room " (where most of the meetings were held of the Constitutional Democratic Party ) and the "kitchen" . Inside the House of NabokovInside the little that remains from the time of the Nabokov family living in this house. Time and history nothing is spared , except for the interiors of several rooms on the first and second floors of the building and the old stained glass windows above the stairway leading to the third floor .Nabokov's memorabilia , including personal belongings of Vladimir Nabokov (index cards , pencils , glasses , playing Scrabble), as well as books and other items related to his life and art, are the basis of the museum's collection . The museum is dedicated to the memory of Vladimir Nabokov's development and its artistic heritage and cultural values, both in Russia and internationally. Museum - not only the house and exhibits related to the life and environment of Nabokov , but the museum also provides a research library for scholars and conducts numerous activities : reading the works of Nabokov and those whom he admired (such as Anton Chekhov and James Joyce ) lectures by international or national conferences (" Nabokov and Russia ", " Nabokov and England ", " Nabokov and France ", " Nabokov and Germany ", " Nabokov and the United States of America "), an annual international summer school Nabokov exhibition of objects related to Nabokov . The activities of the Museum of Nabokov has regular support of leading scientists from around the world .The museum is part of the Philological Faculty of St. Petersburg State University
