Nabokov learns of the problems in the country from the village schoolmaster, as well, who “took us for instructive walks (‘What you hear is the sound of scythe being sharpened’ ‘That field there will be given a rest next season’ ‘Oh, just a small bird-no special name’ ‘If that peasant is drunk, it is because he is poor’)” 6. However, these details are not dwelled upon by Nabokov, who gives only a glimpse of the luxurious results of this trying process.ġst edition cover of Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov. constant risk of injury from poor safety conditions, harsh workplace discipline, and inadequate wages.” 3 All of this could only spread resentment towards the government and the Tsar, helping form a perfect arena for revolutionary ideas, notably Marxism 4. connected St Petersburg with Paris.” 1 This industrialization, which grew apace under Witte’s supervision 2, was accompanied by a proportionate decrease in the living conditions of industrial workers, who were enduring “overcrowded housing with often deplorable sanitary conditions, an exhausting workday. The then great and glamorous Nord-Express. Spacious windows alternated with narrower ones. One could make out the blue upholstery inside, the embossed leather lining of the compartment walls, their polished panels, inset mirrors, tulip-shaped reading lamps, and other maddening details. One of these is industrialization, which occurred at a rapid pace: “In the early years of this century, a travel agency on Nevski Avenue displayed a three-foot-long model of an oak-brown international sleeping car.
Many of the causes that determined the 1905 Russian Revolution are presented in Nabokov’s novel. Riasanovsky in a more traditional account-but at many other times is totally unique, a product of Nabokov’s personal observations.
The insight that Vladimir Nabokov provides into the 1905 Russian Revolution, in his book Speak, Memory, sometimes merges with the general view-presented, for example, by Nicholas V.
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