Everything about Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov totally explained
Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov (Russian: Владимир Дмитриевич Набоков) (
15 July 1870 –
28 March 1922) was a
Russian
criminologist, journalist, and liberal politician. He was the father of Russian
American author
Vladimir Nabokov.
Early life
Nabokov was born in
Tsarskoe Selo, into a wealthy and aristocratic family. His father Dmitry Nabokov (1827 - 1904) was a
Justice Minister in the reign of
Alexander II from 1878 to 1885, and his mother Maria von Korff (1842 -1926) was a
Baroness from a prominent
Baltic German family in
Courland.
He studied criminal law at the
University of St. Petersburg and taught criminology at the Imperial
School of Jurisprudence.
Career
From
1904 until
1917 he was the editor of the liberal newspaper
Rech ("The Speech").
A prominent member of the
Constitutional Democratic Party (the "Kadets"), Nabokov was elected to Russia's parliament, the
First Duma. In
1917, after the
February Revolution, Nabokov helped draft the document for
Grand Duke Michael's refusal of the throne. Nabokov was made secretary to the
Provisional Government. However he was forced to leave St. Petersburg in December 1917 after the Provisional Government was overthrown by the
Bolshevik revolution. In
1918 he served as minister of justice in the regional government of
Crimea, where he and his family had taken refuge. In
1919 the Nabokovs fled to
England and later settled in
Berlin.
From
1920 until his death, Nabokov was the editor of the Russian
émigré newspaper
Rul ("The Rudder"), which continued to advocate a pro-Western democratic government in Russia.
Death
He was in
Berlin in
1922, attending a political conference, when two Russian monarchists approached the stage singing the Tsarist National anthem and opened fire, with the intention of killing the publisher and politician
Pavel Miliukov. In response Nabokov jumped off the stage and attempted to disarm one of the gunmen, but being shot twice, died instantly. One of the assassins was none other than
Piotr Shabelsky-Bork, prominent
conspiracy theorist and promoter the
Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Shabelsky-Bork was subsequently convicted of the murder and received a sentence of fourteen years imprisonment, but only served a short period before being released – the judicial system of Germany being more lenient to right wing criminals than their leftist equivalents. Upon his release, Shabelsy-Bork befriended
Alfred Rosenberg, the notorious
Nazi ideologue. Nabokov's demise was an ironic death for a lifelong democrat: he died defending one of his political opponents. Although the assassins failed even to wound their intended target, they were pleased to learn that they'd killed a prominent supporter of the Provisional Government.
Personal life
V. D. Nabokov married Elena Ivanovna Rukavishnikova in
1897, with whom he'd five children. Their eldest son was the major 20th century author
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, who portrayed his father in his memoirs (
Speak, Memory, 1967). The younger Nabokov also included in his novel
Pale Fire an assassination scene that paralleled the death of his father.
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