51 years ago the LIFE magazine published an article titled “The Master of Versatility”. The hero was the world-famous writer, translator and pedagogue Vladimir Nabokov. The editors had decided to present another field of the writer’s activity – entomology.
Photojournalist Carl Mydans managed to capture the moment when Nabokov was chasing butterflies together with his wife. That article of the magazine was decorated with that very picture.
In an interview with the Life Magazine Nabokov had told the reporter that he had often dreamed of a long and interesting career in a big museum of butterflies.
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