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a map of tourist sites of Berlin ca. 1908: cultural, historical sites, imperial castles, palaces, museums, theaters Berlin Sightseeing, 1908 Tourist Guide to Berlin: "Sehenswürdigkeiten," Neuester Plan und Wegweiser von Berlin, Berlin W: Albert…

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

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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…

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"A Guide to Berlin" is a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1925 in Berlin. The first English translation was published inThe New Yorkeron March 1, 1976.

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Hawa-Triebwagen (TF 20/29), Berliner Verkehrs-AG (BVG), 1920

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Berlin Streetcar (Grosse Berliner Strassenbahn), 1924

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Maximum-Drehgestellt Triebwagen der Berliner Strassenbahn-Betrieb GmbH, Umbau 1925

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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.

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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…

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