Vladimir Nabokov. Un poeta olvidado
Vladimir Nabokov. A FORGOTTEN POET
Perov was the son of a small landowner of whom the only thing known is that he tried planting tea on his estate near Luga. Young Konstantin (to use a biographical intonation) spent most of his time in St. Petersburg vaguely attending the university, then vaguely looking for a clerical job—little indeed is known of his activities beyond such trivialities as can be deduced from the general tren