In the book of Andrei Babikov, a researcher and translator of Nabokov, on the basis of extensive archival material, all the main components of the writer's diverse literary baggage are closely connected: poetry, theater and cinema, Russian and English prose, memoirs, autotranslation, lectures, critical articles and reviews, epistolary. Considerable attention in Perusing Vladimir Nabokov is given to such obscure sides of Nabokov's creative biography as his emigrant and American environment, participation in literary associations, preparation of manuscripts for printing and textual questions, and late stylistic innovations.