The present volume of the collection of Russian-language works by Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) is devoted to the period 1938-1977 . when his autobiography Other Shores (1954) was published, two fragments of an unfinished novel "Solus Rex" (1940) and "Ultima Thule" (1942), as well as the story "The Wizard" (1939), the drama "The Event" (1938), "Invention of the Waltz" (1938), poems that were not included in the collections, and stories from the collection "Spring in Fiat" (1956) Included are the first republished texts, Protest Against the Invasion of Finland (1939), From B. Nabokova-Sirina (1956), Letter to the Editor (1963) and forewords to the editions of N. In. Gogol . The Tale (1952), "Letters from D. In. Nabokov of the Crosses to his Wife (1965), as well as an interview with the writer "Meeting with the Author of Lolita" (1961). In all possible cases, the texts are checked against the originals, accompanied by detailed notes.