A Russian Beauty and Other Stories is a collection of thirteen short stories by Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a multilingual Russian novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist...

. All were written in Russian by Nabokov between 1923 and 1940 as an expatriate in Berlin

Berlin

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, Paris

Paris

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, and other places in western Europe. They appeared individually in the Russian émigré press. Subsequently, they were translated into English by him and his son, Dmitri Nabokov

Dmitri Nabokov

Dmitri Vladimirovich Nabokov is an American opera singer and translator. He is the only child of writer Vladimir Nabokov and his wife Vera Nabokov, and is currently executor of his father's literary estate.-Background:...

 but for the first story which was translated by Simon Karlinsky. The collection was published in 1973.

Stories included

• "A Russian Beauty"
• "The Leonardo
  The Leonardo
  "The Leonardo" is a short story written in Russian by Vladimir Nabokov in Berlin in the summer of 1933. It was first published as Korolyyok in Posledniya Novosti in Paris the same year, and in 1956 as part of the collection Vesna v Fialte...
  
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• "Torpid Smoke"
• "Breaking the News"
• "Lips to Lips
  Lips to Lips
  "Lips to Lips" is a short story written in Russian by Vladimir Nabokov in Berlin in or about 1931. It was first published in 1956 as part of the collection Vesna v Fialte...
  
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• "A Visit to the Museum"
• "An Affair of Honor"
• "Terra Incognita
  Terra Incognita (short story)
  "Terra Incognita" is a short story written in Russian by Vladimir Nabokov that was first published in the émigré journal Posledniya Novosti in Paris in 1931...
  
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• "A dashing Fellow"
• "Ultima Thule"
• "Solus Rex"
• "The Potato Elf
  The Potato Elf
  "The Potato Elf" is a short story written in Russian by Vladimir Nabokov in Berlin where it was first published in the émigré daily Rul in 1929 and then included in 1929 collection Vozvrashchenie Chorba...
  
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• "The Circle"