The lecture will explore how the consciousness of one of the most complex writers of the 20th century is structured. Vladimir Nabokov remains a writer who is difficult to read by inertia. His texts require attention to detail, the play of meanings, hidden connections, and how memory, language, and imagination alter the perception of reality. The lecture will help to approach this complex optics and see what the artistic world of the author is built upon. The conversation will focus on the main themes of Nabokov's work. Among them are memory, exile, duality, play, observation, the power of chance, and the delicate work of consciousness. In his prose, an external event often turns out to be just part of a more complex internal movement, and each detail can be a hint, a trap, or a reflection of another meaning. Special attention will be paid to the symbolism in the writer's works. Colors, objects, recurring images, optical effects, and motifs become a system of signs in his work. The speaker is Yulia Reutova, a writer and researcher of the life and work of Vladimir Nabokov and other classics of world literature. We know what to see in St. Petersburg.