Akhmatova, Anna, 175
Aldanov, Mark, 27
Bentley, Edmund C., 91n98
Bergson, Henri, 6
Borges, Jorge L., 7n
Bromberg, Elena, 87
Burgess, Anthony, 96
Callier, Jacqueline, 82, 82n73
Chaykovski, Petr, 82
Cross, Samuel H., 5n
Dante Alighieri, 166
Dobuzhinski, Mstislav, 68, 68n56
Dostoevski, Fyodor, 39n
Dunne, John W., 14–15, 19–23, 33n2, 34, 37, 37n8, 46, 47n17, 56, 95, 115, 119, 134, 163, 167–68; his dreams, 10–12, 23; his experiment, 12–13, 20, 86, 89; his life, 4–7; his theory, 7–10
Einstein, Albert, 6, 15, 169, 190
Eliot, T. S., 6
Fairbanks, Gordon H. , 5n
Fasolt, Sophia (VN’s cousin), 85, 85n81
Feigin, Anna, 23, 24n, 70n58, 87, 96–97
Flaubert, Gustave (Madame Bovary), 99, 99n10
Florensky, Priest Pavel, 14–18, 78, 97n3, 165, 165n12, 190n54
Földes, Yolanda, 177
Fondaminsky, Ilia, 26, 26n25, 108
Freud, Sigmund, 6, 15, 18nn16 and 17, 19–21
Gershtein, Emma, 175
Gregory, Joshua, 168
Gumilev, Nikolay, 181
Heidegger, Martin, 6
Hinton, C. H., 6
Hitler, Adolf, 39
Horace, 187
Huxley, Aldous, 6
Jolas, Eugene, 6n
Kalashnikov, Mikhail, 48 and 48n
Karpovich, Mikhail, 87, 87n86, 99
Kerenski, Alexander, 102, 102n
Khodasevich, Viacheslav, 26 and 26n26, 27, 108, 189n51
Korff, Baroness Maria von, 98
Kubrick, Stanley, 26
Ledkovski, Marina, 86n82
Léon Noël, Lucie, 171
Losev, Alexey, 190n54
Mandelstam, Osip, 68n57
Mason, A.E.W., 37n8
Massalsky, Princess Elena, 84, 84n78
McCarthy, Cormac, 163
McTaggart, J. M., 168
Monk, Jeremiah, 177n32
Nabokov, Dmitri (VN’s son), 3n3, 40, 40n10, 57, 79, 85, 170, 184–86, 192; in VN’s dreams, 44–46, 55, 64–65, 67 (“perhaps”), 70, 76, 80–81, 87, 92 (“vaguely”), 105, 108
Nabokov, Elena (mother), 52; in VN’s dreams, 53, 57, 59–62, 77; 97n4
Nabokov, Kirill (brother), 91, 91n96
Nabokov, Sergey (brother), 27, 53
Nabokov, Véra (wife), 3n3, 30, 35n4, 42, 105; 37, 41, 63, 74, 82, 90–91, 108 (“I love you”), 182–83, 184, 187 (“you”); her dreams, reported, 44–45, 46–47, 52, 57 (“irretrievable”), 64, 65, 73, 74, 76, 84, 86–87; her memoir sketch, 185–86; in VN’s dreams, 35, 39, 46, 48, 49–50, 62, 64, 65–66, 70, 80, 81, 85, 87, 88, 92, 96–97, 99, 105; in VN’s “fatidic” visions, 68, 86; in VN’s letters, 107
Nabokov, V. D. (father), 82, 98, 119; refracted in VN’s fictional dreams, 25, 151–56; in VN’s dreams, 2, 61–62, 76–77, 81, 99, 102, 105–6
Nikolay Andreevich (cook), 81, 81n71
Papineau, David, 168n18, 169n20
Pierce, Naomi, 178
Pelé, Edson Arantes, 107
Petkevich, Olga (sister), 87, 87n87
Planck, Max, 6
Priestly, J. B., 6
Proust, Marcel, 160
Pushkin, Alexander, 183–84
Rausch von Traubenberg, Baron George (cousin), 56–57, 57n31
Rukavishnikov, Vasily (uncle), 25–26
Russell, Bertrand, 168
Selivonik, Tatiana, 86n82
Shakespeare, William, 170, 170n23, 174
Sikorski, Elena (sister), 24n, 27, 63, 63n42, 73, 76
Sikorski, Vladimir (nephew), 62–63, 62n40, 80, 89
Shifrin, Semyon, 92n99
Slonim, Sophia, 52
Solntsev, Konstantin, 97n4
Stoppard, Sir Tom, 173
Voronina, Olga, 186n48
Wells, H. G., 6
Wilson, Edmund, 3n6, 85, 85n79, 119, 174–75
Zimmer, Dieter, 164n9