Nabokov House is the house in Saint Petersburg with the modern street number of 47 Great Morskaya Street (Bol'shaia morskaia ulitsa), 190000. It was in this mansion that Vladimir Nabokov was born in 1899. Currently, the first floor of the house contains the Nabokov Museum.
Read more about Nabokov House: History of The House, Nabokov Museum, Friends of The Nabokov Museum (FNM)
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