>The family spoke Russian, English, and French in their household, and Nabokov was trilingual from an early age. He related that the first English book his moth

>The family spoke Russian, English, and French in their household, and Nabokov was trilingual from an early age. He related that the first English book his mother read to him was Misunderstood (1869) by Florence Montgomery. In fact, much to his patriotic father's disappointment, Nabokov could read and write in English before he could in Russian.