Leonid Parfenov

Leonid Parfenov: Premiere of Nabokov, a Good Russian and the New Volume Namedni. 2021–2025

On December 9th, at the Dom Kultury Polskiej w Wilnie in Vilnius, Leonid Parfenov will host the premiere screening of his new documentary Nabokov, a Good Russian and present the newly released volume Namedni. 2021–2025. The screening will be followed by an audience Q&A and a book signing. The event will last approximately three hours.

Nabokov, a Good Russian

Vladimir Nabokov, the last great figure of Russian literature to become a classic of international modernism, left his native Petrograd as early as 1917, and his entire career unfolded in exile. Yet he remained a committed Russian patriot and saw himself as an heir to the traditions of Pushkin and Tolstoy. He regarded Soviet rule, and the "socialist realist" literature it produced, as a historical aberration that would sooner or later come to an end.

This is perhaps the most important lesson that today's Russian émigrés, now considered the fifth wave of emigration, can draw from Nabokov's life and from the experience of the first wave: the confidence to stand by one's convictions despite the regime ruling one's homeland and despite the compatriots who support it.

The film was shot in Berlin, London, Paris, at Cornell University in the United States, and in Montreux, Switzerland.

In the dramatized sequences, Vladimir and Véra Nabokov are played by Maksim Sukhanov and Chulpan Khamatova.

The film also features Noize MC and Monetochka, performing songs they wrote to Nabokov's poetry.

Namedni. 2021–2025

The television project Namedni began in 1997 as a documentary series about the events, people and phenomena that defined the Soviet era. A book edition followed in 2009, and twelve volumes have been published since. Namedni. 2021–2025 is the first book in the series to be published outside Russia.

The new volume covers the first half of the 2020s, a period that, looking back today, can seem almost entirely dominated by a single subject: the war. The so-called "special military operation," which has now lasted longer than the Great Patriotic War, the Prigozhin mutiny, the capture of Bakhmut, Operation Spiderweb and the attacks on the Belgorod region all feature in the book. Yet the project's signature "events, people, phenomena" approach also makes room for Labubu and Ozempic, The Boy's Word: Blood on the Asphalt and quadrobers, artificial intelligence and Vanya Dmitrienko.

With 242 defining phenomena and more than 570 illustrations, the volume brings together everything without which it is impossible to picture these years, and even harder to understand them.

The author will sign every copy of Namedni. 2021–2025 purchased during the evening.

About the author

Leonid Parfenov is a journalist, television presenter and creator of documentary projects including Namedni, Russian Empire, Living Pushkin, Ptitsa-Gogol, Russia in Bloom, The Eye of God, Russian Jews, Russian Georgians and others.

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