Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov (July 15, 1870 - March 28, 1922) was a Russian criminologist, publisher and liberal politician.He was born in Tsarskoe Selo. Nabokov studied criminal law at St. Petersburg University and taught criminology at the Imperial School of Jurisprudence, St. Petersburg. He was the editor of the liberal newspaper Rech since 1904. A prominent member of the Constitutional Democratic party, he was elected to Russia's parliament, the so-called First Duma. In 1917, after the February Revolution, Nabokov was made secretary to the Russian provisional government, but was forced to leave St. Petersburg in December 1917 after the provisional government had been abolished in the course of the Bolshevik revolution. In 1918 he became minister of justice in the Crimean regional government. In 1919 the Nabokov family emigrated to England and later moved on to Germany. From 1920 until his death Nabokov was the editor of the Russian émigré newspaper Rul.
He died by gunshot wound in Berlin in 1922. Two right-wing assassins began firing in a conference he was attending, intending to murder publisher and politician Pavel Miliukov. V. D. Nabokov jumped off the stage, attempting to disarm one of them, but he was shot twice and died instantly. V. D. Nabokov's demise was tragic but fitting for a lifelong democrat: he died defending one of his political opponents. Although the assassins failed to wound their intended target, they were pleased when they were told the man they had killed was also a prominent democrat. His son, the novelist Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, later wrote a scene resembling this assassination in his novel Pale Fire.
V. D. Nabokov married Elena Ivanovna Rukavishnikov in 1897, with whom he was to have five children. Their eldest son was Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, who portrayed his father in his memoirs (Speak, Memory, 1967).