Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov Timeline and Summary

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• He's born to a ritzy family near St. Petersburg on June 20, 1870.
• Until the age of thirteen he is educated at home by tutors.
• He begins to attend a high school/college-prep, where he is a driven and successful student.
• In 1895, he is made a Minister.
• After graduation at sixteen, he goes to university and studies law.
• On November 14, 1897, he marries Vladimir's mother Elena.
• He begins to teach law, and have children with Elena, including Vladimir in 1889.
• In 1904, after writing an incendiary editorial about police involvement in recent pogroms, he is relieved of his ministry.
• After this, he becomes a true liberal activist, refusing to drink to the Tsar and pointedly putting his uniform up for sale.
• He becomes an editor for a liberal daily newspaper, and a formal member of the liberal party.
• In 1906, he's elected to Parliament, which is dissolved soon after.
• In 1908, he serves three months in prison for his involvement in political activities. He writes letters inquiring after Vladimir's butterfly hunts.
• Throughout Vladimir's childhood, he is in charge of hiring tutors, most of whom are local university students with a wide variety of political beliefs and backgrounds.
• He attends musical concerts with his son Sergey.
• He practices fencing and loves to take bicycle rides.
• In 1911, a slanderous article is written about him, and he calls the editor of the newspaper to a duel. However, nothing comes of it, because the editor apologizes and retracts the article first.
• From 1913 to 1919, on, he spends time getting in trouble for various political activities and trying in vain to work within the government.
• After his self-elected exile, he continues to edit newspapers and deliver speeches.
• In 1922, he is at a public lecture in Berlin, when Russian Fascist assassins attempt to shoot one of his colleagues and he gets in front of the bullet, dying on March 28, 1922, at the age of 51.