Return To Europe and Death
Upon the couple's return to Europe in 1960, she resided with her husband at the Montreux Palace Hotel where she continued to manage his affairs, and after his death in 1977, his estate. Upon his death, Vladimir had requested his final work, The Original of Laura be burned, but neither Véra nor her son Dmitri could bring themselves to destroy the manuscript, and eventually it was published in 2009. In her late eighties, she translated Pale Fire into Russian. She stayed at the Palace until 1990, and died the following year at Vevey.
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