Vladimir Nabokov. Lik
Vladimir Nabokov. LIK
In Paris, where the play had great success, Igor was played by Francois Coulot, and played not badly but for some reason with a strong Italian accent, which he evidently wanted to pass off as Russian, and which did not surprise a single Parisian critic. Afterwards, when the play trickled down into the provinces, this role fell by chance to a real Russian actor, Lik (stage name of Lavrentiy Ivanovich Kruzhev nitsyn), a lean, fair-haired fellow with coffee-dark eyes, who had previ ously won some fame, thanks to a fi