Lyric places of Europe invade my remembrances. I follow the routes of symbolists, of the silver age lyricists and prosaists. The Eastern France, especially Elsace, saturates my vision with Nabokovian plots of Marceille, Lion, Strasbourg. Also Nabokov's characters catch my attention in Eastern Switzerland, il cuore francese di Svizzera; in Berlin where his formerly Russian protagonists arrived and where they inspiratedly abode.

I glide over memorable pages of novellas by Nabokov.

Blok, Beliy, Vyacheslav IvAnov and even Blavatskaya astounded my imagination in Basel and Berne, in Liestal and Solothurne.

It is needed to live an entire life through, at the core of Europe, to be duly saturated with its historic and stylistic plots. Nabokov was one to start up his life there in adolescence, like myself. Alpine scapes ought to be preferred no later than in the middle of the 20th century, I believe. I am very much devoted in my heart to panoramas of schwartzwald, no less than Goete or Heine, but with the spiritual grasp of early Nabokov perhaps. It is totally unneeded to let East-Slavonic tribes to the core of Europe; they are meant to keep their own scythian estates eastwise... The Oriental authors ought to occasionally appear in Europe with their thematic missions. These are not my own points; this is how Blok and Beliy considered it to be, from the Rgeine shores to the Emerald Coast if the Middle Sea. Beliy wrote "The Snow and Tunisia" foreseeing new climatic snd stylistic belts of the 20th century...