A review by allabaranovsky
Vera: Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov by Stacy Schiff

5.0

A wonderfully touching biography of an extraordinary "literary wife". Always elegant, regal, unbelievably erudite, Vera Nabokov (nee Sirin) is an easy subject for an interesting biography. The book is filled with amusing anecdotes from the Nabokovs' life together, but it gets rather sad toward the end, as it really becomes difficult to consider somebody so full of llife as either one of the pair mortal. As impressive as Maria Dostoevsky's and Sophia Tolstoy's support to their great husbands might have been, Vera Nabokov's story is by far my favorite.