The metamorphoses of Vladimir Nabokov's life and creative path exactly repeat the metamorphoses of the time in which he happened to live. The revolution, the exodus of the intelligentsia from Russia, the impossibility of living without a homeland and the inability to return to the homeland turned into the creative fate of Vladimir Nabokov, a brilliant stylist, heir to the Pushkin tradition, forced and then deliberate homelessness, the search for his place in a foreign cultural tradition and even the abandonment of his native speech as a means of self-expression. It is all the more interesting for a modern reader to have the opportunity to get acquainted with the biography of Vladimir Nabokov, since it belongs to the pen of the famous literary critic Alexei Zverev.