Издания и произведения

Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories, is a collection of 13 short stories by Vladimir Nabokov written between 1924 and 1939. The first 12 stories were written while the author was living abroad in Berlin, Paris and Menton. (Originally from Saint Petersburg the Nabokov family emigrated in exil to Europe in 1919 following the Russian Revolutions of 1917). The thirteenth story alone was composed originally in English (written in Ithaca Up-state New York 1951). The other titles in the collection have been translated into English by Dmitri Nabokov in collaboration with the author.