The reader is invited to the first and most autobiographical novel by the world famous Russian-American writer, one of the largest prose writers of the 20th century, the author of the famous “Lolita” Vladimir Nabokov. “Mashenka” (1926) is a book about the “oddities of memory,” about the whimsical interweaving of life patterns of the past and present, about the “delightful event” of the resurrection by the main character, a Russian emigrant Lev Ganin living in Berlin, of the story of his first love. The novel, set in just six days and with very few characters, gains emotional poignancy and semantic depth thanks to the passionate power of Ganin's (and the author's) memory, faithful to the irrational moments of the past.