Vladimir Nabokov (Sirin) began his literary activity not with prose, but with poems. In 1916 . , while still a student of Tenishevsky school , With your own money , inherited from the suddenly deceased "Uncle of the Hand" (Vasily Rukavishnikov) , Young Nabokov publishes a book of poems , which , As a writer, , “The few reviewers who immediately deserved it , were torn apart by those few reviewers. who have seen it.... Among these predators was the teacher of the Tenishevsky school Vasily Gippius According to Nabokov's memoirs, "In. In. Hippius once brought a copy of the assembly to the class and broke it up in detail with universal, or almost universal laughter. His much more famous, but less talented cousin Zinaida, meeting at a Literary Foundation meeting with my father, said to him, “Please tell your son that he will never be a writer.” Melnikov . "Classic without retouching" .