![]() ![]() The following year, he began working at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, devoting as much as fourteen hours a day to drawing the wings and genitalia of butterflies. In 1940, having written nine novels in Russian and one in English, Nabokov immigrated to New York, where he became an affiliate in entomology at the American Museum of Natural History. Two years later, as a first-year student at Cambridge University, he described his observations in a scholarly paper for The Entomologist. ![]() Petersburg for Crimea, where he surveyed nine species of Crimean moths and seventy-seven species of Crimean butterflies. He published his first verses as a teen-ager, shortly before the Russian Revolution in 1918, he fled St. Throughout a long and protean literary career, his passion for insects remained unwavering. Vladimir Nabokov began collecting lepidoptera at the age of seven. A drawing by Vladimir Nabokov of the wing of a Karner blue, a butterfly species that he discovered and named in 1944. ![]()
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