Book of remembrances of Vladimir Набокова an unusual structure and setting have "Other banks" (1954) : reconstructing the remote past - from the first years of the XX◦century for May, 1940,◦- he tries to find out in him development and reiteration of secret themes in an obvious fate. The most tragic years of Russian and European history, Набоков became the witness of that, can not prevent even Such development and reiteration. Despite time and space, author "Gift" and "Lolita" with an extraordinary art and persistence aims to go back into the happy farmstead childhood - if not in a flesh, then by own "twin in the American overcoat on викуньевом fur".