NP but Cornell and VN.

[Keith McMullen]

> On Sep 21, 2020, at 4:57 AM, DuBois, John E. <jdubois at cabq.gov> quoting from the Cornell Chronicle :
> 
> “Nabokov's first languages were French and Russian; English was his third.”

In “Speak, Memory” (on p. 28) Nabokov says otherwise:

“During one of his short stays with us in the country that summer, he ascertained, with patriotic dismay, that my brother and I could read and write English but not Russian (except KAKAO and MAMA). It was decided that the village schoolmaster should come every afternoon to give us lessons and take us for walks.“