Nabokov was more than an anti-Soviet writer. He had not even ideological, but aesthetic disagreements with the Soviet regime. He treated the communist regime with disgust and contempt and denied it any right to inherit Russian culture. Nabokov had no illusions about Russia's revival. Russia is over for him, and everything that happens after 1917 has nothing to do with it. Then, in the words of one of the characters in the novel “Feat,” there was only “thieves’ music.” “First of all,” says the main character of the play “The Man from the USSR” to a former landowner who decided to flee to the Soviet Union out of emigrant melancholy, “unlearn saying “Russia.” It's called differently."