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A photograph of the young Vladimir Nabokov taken at KaDeWe, Berlin's department store, during his 6th year of exile, as the writer's handwritten caption indicates.

"Konka," a Russian horse-drawn tram, served as a means of transportation in St. Petersburg from 1863 until 1917.

major sites of the Russian emigre community in the 1920s Berlin (embassies, relief agencies, banks, restaurants, as well as publishing houses, bookstores, and libraries)

In the early 1920s, Berlin was home to almost 360 000 Russian emigres. This map shows where some of the most prominent members of the Russian Berlin community lived during their stay in the city, as well as the sites of Russian Berlin and Berlin…

Pipes—"not yet lowered into the ground"—on Potsdamer Platz, 1935

Vintage Postcard: The Elephant Gate at Number 9 Budapester Strasse

A horse-drawn omnibus on Nevsky Prospekt in Petersburg, 1900. K. Bulla's photo studio can be seen in the background.

This schematic representation of the narrative movement of Nabokov's "A Guide to Berlin" shows the temporal complexity of the narrative. Each block (color-coded by the location) represents a small textual segment, in which the time of action was…

An interactive graph, or "score," of Nabokov's short story "A Guide to Berlin." The interactive "score" of Nabokov's "A guide to Berlin" shows the progression of the narrative verb by verb in each chapter (left to right, horizontal axis) and the…