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Visualizing genealogy is a notorious problem. The Nabokov Family Web comprises 418 individuals from nineteen generations and is a ramified structure so large that with all the information it contains it could not be visualized graphically even on a very wide piece of paper, let alone on a monitor screen. So the user will have to "walk through" its 208 "cards" (i.e., HTML pages) of "kernel families," each one variously linked to parents and offspring, either starting with Vladimir Nabokov on the Home Card or with any of the names in the two indexes and then clicking her or his way up, down or sideways from card to card. To facilitate a larger overview of relationships, six graphic family trees have been generated by a genealogical software (Daub Ages! v1.53) from the database of all the names and life dates, each showing different (but partly overlapping) sections of the unfeasible complete tree. Though it has not even half of all the names, the biggest of these still would have a full canvas size of 3 × 1 metres and has to be scaled down to 10% to fit into a wide computer screen. To make it at all legible, it has to be enlarged at least to 50%, meaning that only part of it will be visible at a time.
The main source for this
genealogical Web has been, of course, Les Nabokov:
Essai généalogique by Jacques Ferrand. His invaluable study
has been supplemented by various other sources, some of them rather recondite.
Some of the recent additions come from Internet genealogies. Whenever there was conflicting information, the source that had the most detail
or authority or whose author presumably had had access to family papers was
preferred. Some further information, mostly of a recent kind, has come from
members of the family whom I wish to thank for their contributions. All
relatives mentioned in Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (1967)
are included and referenced (SM 54 = Speak, Memory page 54).
Corrections and additions are welcome. Principal sources Boyd, Brian: Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years. Princeton, NJ
(Princeton University Press) 1990 Ferrand, Jacques: Les familles princières de l'ancien empire de
Russie (en émigration en 1978). Montreuil (Jacques Ferrand) 1979-1980 Ferrand, Jacques / Serge Nabokov: Les Nabokov: Essai généalogique.
Montreuil (Jacques Ferrand) 1982 Genealogisches Handbuch der fürstlichen Häuser, Band
1, Band 15. Glücksburg (Starke) 1951, 1997 Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels: Freiherrliche Häuser A, Band
6. Limburg (Starke) 1966 Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der freiherrlichen Häuser. Gotha
(Perthes) 1857, 1861, 1863, 1877 Grossman, Lev: "The gay Nabokov."
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/05/17/nabokov/index.html Hartung, Bernhard: Die Buchdruckerfamilie Hartung. Königsberg
(Sonderdruck der Königsberger Hartungschen Zeitung) Sommer 1913
Heiss, Lisa: Askania-Nova - Animal Paradise in Russia. London: Bodley
Head, 1970 Ikonnikov, Nicolas: La noblesse de Russie. Paris 1934 ff. Kitzig, Berthold: Carl Heinrich Graun. Mitteldeutsche
Lebensbilder, Band 4, Magdeburg (Historische Kommission) 1929 Mennicke, Carl: "Zur Biographie der Brüder Graun". Neue
Zeitschrift für Musik (Leipzig), Jg.71, Bd.100, Nr.8, 1904, S.129-131 Nabokovskii vestnik, Vypusk 2: Nabokov v rodstvennom okruzhenii.
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deutschen Frau 1761-1835. Leipzig (Koehler & Amelang) 1937 Schiff, Stacy: Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov). New York (Random
House) 1999
Memoirs
by members of the Nabokov family
Falz-Fein, Woldemar von: Askania Nova - Das Tierparadies. Neudamm:
Neumann, 1930. Askania Nova. Kiev: Akhrana Nauka, 1997
Nabokoff, C. (= Konstantin Dmitrievich Nabokov): The Ordeal of a Diplomat.
London: Duckworth, 1921
Nabokov, Nicolas: Old Friends and New Music. London: Hamish Hamilton,
1951 Nabokov, Nicolas: Bagazh: Reminiscences of a
Russian Cosmopolitan. New York: Atheneum, 1975
Nabokov, Serge (= Sergei Sergeevich Nabokov): "Profils." In Jacques Ferrand
(1982), q.v., p.77-106
Nabokoff, Wladimir Dmitriewitsch: Arkhiv russkoi revolyutsii, vol. 1,
Berlin 1922, p.9-96. Petrograd 1917 - Der kurze Sommer der Revolution.
Berlin: Rowohlt, 1992
Memoirs by Vera Pihatcheff née Nabokoff (7 Red Years). Rowsley: Bibliophila
Library, 1935
Als unsere Welt unterging - Tagebuch der Prinzessin Katherina Sayn-Wittgenstein
aus den Tagen der Russischen Revolution. Berlin: Siedler, 1984. La fin de
ma Russie - Journal 1914-1919. Montricher: Noir sur Blanc, 1990
Wonlar-Larsky, Nadine: The Russia that I Loved. London: MacSwinney, 1937
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