Lectures on Russian literature? In. Nabokov, written by him for American students, first appeared in Russia in the publishing house "Independent Newspaper" . Literary studies of the great writer are as self-valuable creations as his prose. Possessing a deeply personal vision of Russian classics, V. Nabokov in his own way read well-known works, treating them, using the expression of Andrei Bitov,'on his own example'. In'Applications? published essays about Pushkin, Lermontov, etc. which, as we see it, successfully complement the main text of the lectures . The publication is intended for students and anyone who wants to discover another facet of the creativity of a truly multifaceted Master. "As every whole personality should have, Nabokov's lecturer is inseparable from the writer, he is his natural continuation. The only difference is that before the audience in place of his own words he has to substitute the words of Chekhov, Turgenev, Gogol, Flaubert, Proust or Kafka. Nabokov's artistic preferences extend not only to his own world, but also to literary classics, from where he chooses only what confirms his writing views; everything else is discarded as not worthy of attention. Hence the nabokovization of world literature, the alignment of its creators in a number of historical predecessors to himself. Here, look, the Nabokov pages of Leo Tolstoy, here is the Sirin observation of Joyce, here are the wet finds of Lermontov on the still uncultivated flower beds'Dar?.......... Writing his lectures, Nabokov, in fact, continued any of his novels, using this time someone else's verbal material. Hence such an abundant self-inflicted citation. Although, on the other hand, 'Anna Karenina? Briefly you can't tell . " IV. TOLSTOY