Speak, Memory Allusions & Cultural References

Literary References

• An [Outdated] Reading List for Kids
• Robin Hood (1.1.3)
• Little Red Riding Hood (1.1.3)
• Bertha von Suttner, Die Waffen Nieder (1.4.2)
  
• Foxy Grandpa (3.3.7)
  
• Buster Brown (3.3.7)
• Countess of Segur, Les Malheurs de Sophie (3.7.3, 5.5.2)
• Countess of Segur, Les Petites Filles Modeles (3.7.3)
• Countess of Segur, Les Vacances (3.7.3)
• Florence Montgomery, Misunderstood (4.2.3)
• Florence Kate Upton, The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwog (4.2.3, 5.5.4)
• Marie Corelli, The Mighty Atom (4.4.2)
• Captain Mayne Reid, Headless Horseman (10.1.1, 10.1.3, 10.1.5, 10.2.1)
• James Fenimore Cooper (10.1.3)
• Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart (10.2.9)—Queen Guinevere
• Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid (12.2.6)
  
• The Arabian Nights (12.4.1)

Works of a Musical Sort

• Mikhail Glinka, Ruslan and Lyudmila (2.1.5)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Pikovaya dama (2.1.5)
• Georg Caspar Schurmann (3.3.1)
• Richard Wagner, Tristan und Isolde (10.2.9)—Isolde

• The Master's Own Voice, and Related Nabokovs
• Vladimir Nabokov, The Gift (2.2.2, 14.2.1)
• Dmitri Nabokov, The Ordeal of a Diplomat (3.1.11)

Famous Russians and Less Famous Russians

• Anton Chekov (2.4.4, 3.3.4)
• Fyodor Dostovevsky, The Double (3.1.2)
• Alexander Pushkin (3.1.2, 3.2.3, 3.3.4, 12.2.4, 12.4.1, 13.4.1)
• Alexander Pushkin, Boris Godunov (3.1.11)
• Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin (3.2.3)
• Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (5.1.6)
• Ivan Bunin (6.3.8, 14.2.7)
• Leo Tolstoy (8.1.3, 10.1.4, 13.4.1)
• Ivan Goncharov (8.2.5)
• Dmitriy Grigorovich (8.2.5)
• Vladimir Korolenko (8.2.5)
• Konstantin Stanyukovich (8.2.5)
• Dmitriy Mamin-Sibiryak (8.2.5)
• Mikhail Lermontov, The Novice (8.3.2, 8.3.3, 8.3.4, 8.3.5)
• Alexander Pushkin, The Bronze Horseman (8.3.6)
• Dilanov-Tomski, Songs of Lost Love (10.1.4)
• Dilanov-Tomski, Nocturnal Urns (10.1.4)
• Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (10.1.4)
• Anton Chekov, The Lady with the Dog (12.4.2)
• Aleksey Tolstoy (13.1.2) poet
• Nikolay Gumilyov (13.2.3) poet
• Vladislav Hodasevich (13.2.3, 14.2.6) poet
• Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (13.2.4)
• Vladimir Nabokov, The Tale of Igor's Campaign (13.4.1)
• Nikolai Gogol (13.4.1)
• Fyodor Tyutchev (13.4.1)
• Vladimir Dahl, Interpretative Dictionary of the Living Russian Language (13.4.1)
• Maxim Gorki (13.5.2)
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky (14.2.5, 14.2.6, 14.2.7

For Lepidopterists & Other Nature Lovers

• Maria Sibylla Merian (6.2.2)—plates of butterflies from Suriname
• Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper, Die Schmetterlinge (6.2.2)—illustrated nature booklets
• Jean Baptiste Boiduval, Icones Historiques de Lepidopteres Nouveaux ou Peu Connus (6.2.2)—a book for new lepidopterists
• L. Hugh Newman, Natural History of British Butterflies and Moths (6.2.2)
• Ernst Hofman, Die Gross-Schmetterlinge Europas (6.2.2, 6.2.3, 6.5.1)
• Grand Duke Nikolay Mihailovich, Memoires (6.2.2)
• Samuel Hubbard Scudder, Butterflies of New England (6.2.2)
• Richard South, The Butterflies of the British Isles (6.2.3)
• Adaelbert Seitz, Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde (6.2.3)
• Afanasy Fet, Butterfly (6.3.9)
• Alfred de Musset, Le Saule (6.3.9)
• Robert Browning, By the Fire-side (6.3.9)
• Richard South, The Entomologist (6.5.1)

The Classics

• William Shakespeare, King Lear (3.1.11)
• Charles Dickens (4.2.3, 8.4.2)
• Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days (5.5.2)
• Alphone Daudet, Le Petit Chose (5.5.2)
• Victor Hugo, Les Miserable (5.5.2)
• Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo (5.5.2)
• Jean Racine (5.6.5)
• Alphonse Daudet (4.2.3)
• Johann Wolgang von Goethe, Faust (4.4.4)
• Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland (8.1.3, 8.3.2)
• Lord Byron (8.2.1)
• Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (8.3.6, 13.4.1)
• Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (8.3.5)
• Charles Gide, Principles of Political Economy (8.4.1)
• Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac (8.4.2)
• Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (8.4.2)
• Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (9.1.2)
• H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (9.2.5)
• John Milton (13.4.4)
• Philip Marlowe (13.4.4)
• Andrew Marvell (13.4.4)
• James Joyce, Ulysses (13.5.3)
• A.E. Housman (13.5.3)
• Lewis Carroll, Dormouse (13.5.3)
• A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad (13.5.3)

Miscellany

• Madame de Rambouillet (5.6.5)
• Louis Bouilhet, A Une Femme (11.5.1)
• Sigmund Freud (15.2.3) as "the Viennese Quack"

References of Historical Personages

• Vladimir Lenin (3.1.4, 12.3.1, 13.3.4, 13.5.2)
• Tsar Alexander II, (3.2.4)
• Empress Eugénie de Montijo (7.2.1)
• Adolf Hitler (15.2.1, 15.3.3)

References to Culture

• House of Faberge, (5.5.13)
• Fra Angelico, The Annunciation (6.1.3)
• Max Linder (8.2.4), French comedic actor
• Leon Baskt (9.5.6), painter
• Alexandre Benois (11.5.3), painter
• Konstantin Somov (11.5.3), painter
• Ivan Shiskin, Clearing in a Pine Forest (12.2.2), painting
• Alexei Harlamov, Head of a Young Gypsy (12.2.2), painting
• Alexandre Benois Dobuzhinski, Art World (12.2.2), painting
  
• The Chrysanthemums Blossom No More in the Garden (12.2.3), film
  
• Her Heart Was a Toy in His Hands and Like a Toy It Got Broken (12.2.3), film
• Ivan Mouzzhin (12.2.4, 12.4.4), Russian silent film actor
• Savely Sorin (12.4.3), painter