A collection of stories and poems published earlier in various emigrant publications was prepared by Nabokov in June 1929. ; released in December of the same year. A quarter of a century later, in the book Russian Literature in Exile, Struve gave a concise but very accurate analysis of all Nabokov’s lyrics including poems from The Return of the Chorb. In carefully selected poems , There are almost no taste breakdowns included in the "Return of the Chorb" , It was harder and harder ,. there was some thematic proximity to Khodasevich (poet, which the mature Nabokov placed especially high among his contemporaries) , Reminiscences from the Block , have disappeared clearly extrinsic, Imitative , lost the reader and the impression of kinship with Fet , which gave earlier poems Nabokov (similarity and there was a purely external , There was no fet music in Nabokov's poems, He was always a plastic poet.... It is not a song store.. The poems "The Return of Chorb" are mostly beautiful examples of Russian Parnassism ; They perfectly illustrate one of Nabokov's distinctive properties as a writer, which was expressed so clearly in his prose: the extraordinary sharpness of the vision of the world combined with the ability to find the most adequate expression in the word for visual impressions. N. Melnikov . "Classic without retouching" .