The lecture on the Russian period of Vladimir Nabokov's work helps to see how a large authorial world was formed from his early poems, stories, novellas, and novels. The conversation will be interesting for those who want to read the writer beyond the school canon and notice the echoes of themes, images, and plots in his Russian-language books. Vladimir Nabokov's work is often perceived through a few of his most famous books, but such a view leaves out a vast layer of texts without which it is difficult to truly feel the logic of his writing. In the early period, it is especially noticeable how the same themes, motifs, and artistic techniques transition from one work to another, forming a complex internal system. This is why the discussion about the Russian stage of his work can be important for both those who already love Nabokov and those who are just beginning to explore his literary universe. The lecture is part of the series "Worlds of Vladimir Nabokov" and focuses on those texts that were written during the Russian-speaking period. The attention will be on not only novels but also poetry, novellas, short stories, plays, essays, and other forms through which the writer's method is revealed. This approach is particularly valuable because it allows us to see the author not through individual works but in motion-as a writer who develops his own circle of images, plots, and intonations over many years. The meeting will discuss the poem "Sunny Dream," the novels "Mashenka," "The King, The Queen, The Knave," "The Defense of Luzhin," "The Gift," "Camera Obscura," "Despair," "Invitation to a Beheading," and the novella "The Eye," as well as stories and poems from 1923 to 1940. For the listeners, this is an opportunity to see how the same artistic sensitivity operates across different genres, how the meta-novel is constructed, and why reading Nabokov requires attention to details, connections, and recurring motifs. The speaker of the meeting is Yulia Reutova, a writer and researcher of the life and works of Vladimir Nabokov and other classics of world literature.