The anthology presents a broad picture of the perception of Nabokov's work in Russian culture, provides different points of view on the writer's works and covers the entire creative evolution of the author - from Russian poems and novels to late English-language creativity. The collection includes essays, articles, interviews, reviews by Nabokov-Svirin, his prefaces to English translations of Russian novels and English-language novels, stories and memoirs, a preface to the English translation of “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign,” as well as a fragment from V. Nabokov’s commentary to the translation of "Eugene Onegin". The second part of the book presents Russian émigré criticism of Nabokov-Svirin. The book ends with a bibliography of Nabokov's works published abroad and in Russia, as well as foreign and Russian publications about him. The publication is intended for philologists, teachers and students, as well as all readers interested in Nabokov’s work and the history of Russian culture Comp., intro.. art. and note B.V.Averina. - St. Petersburg: RKhGI, 1997, 1999. - 976 p. ISBN 5-88812-058-8 The first volume of the two-volume "V.V. Nabokov: Pro et contra" includes selected texts by V. Nabokov, articles by emigre critics and studies by modern specialists that may be useful and are interesting both for those studying the work of V. Nabokov, and for a wide range of readers. "...it should be noted that the interest in the writer’s work, which has arisen since the first publications, is constantly growing and is bearing more and more new fruits In addition to individual books and monographs, which will be discussed below, one cannot fail to note the publication of two volumes of the collection “Vladimir Nabokov: Pro et contra” (Nabokov V.V. Pro et contra. T.1, St. Petersburg, 1997; Nabokov V. V. Pro et contra. T.2, St. Petersburg, 2001). The collection contains rare bibliographical Nabokov materials, as well as scientific and critical articles by leading foreign and domestic Nabokov scholars." A. Rusanov