Spring in Fialta Resources
Images
Vladimir Nabokov
A classic photo of the man himself
If Nina were real…
She might look like this.
Documents
Chekhov’s "Lady with Lapdog"
This is the short story which many scholars claim "Spring in Fialta" echoes (See "Shout-Outs" for details)
Other
Nabokov’s 1964 Interview with Playboy
Also, be very careful before you go searching for "Nabokov" and "Playboy" in the same sentence. The man wrote Lolita, after all. (We learned this the hard way. And if we were Nabokov, we would make a pun on that.)
Nabokov’s 1967 Interview with The Paris Review
You might like this one, especially the part where he calls Ezra Pound a pretentious hack.