Īccording to contemporaries, Sergey Nabokov was a nice, intelligent young man who spoke four languages fluently, knew French and Russian poetry, and loved music and theater, which made him very different from his brother. From 1924 to 1926 he was romantically involved with a Polish painter living in Paris, Józef Czapski the relationship ended when Czapski, who was suffering from typhus, went to London for treatment. He soon moved to Paris, where he lived in the tiny apartment of his immigrant friend Pavel Tchelitchew and Pavel's lover Allen Tanner, who introduced him to the gay cultural elite of Paris, such as Jean Cocteau, Sergei Diagilev, Virgil Thomson, and Gertrude Stein. Given the atmosphere of tolerance in Germany at the time, Sergey behaved freely, participating actively in the gay community and meeting Magnus Hirschfeld. Vladimir worked for only several hours total, and Sergey lasted a week.
Both tried to work in the banking sector, but were unable to do such work. Īfter graduating in 1922, the brothers returned to their family in Berlin. The brothers were quite different, with Sergey being tall, slim, blond, with pink skin, with an elegant aesthetic, and cheerful but sensitive.
They spent much time together, often playing tennis. Sergey and Vladimir studied Russian and French philology at Trinity College, Cambridge. In April 1919, before the beginning of Bolshevik rule, the Nabokov family left Russia forever and settled in Berlin. According to Vladimir, his brother "a first-rate actor", faked symptoms of typhus, and the brothers were ignored. During their journey, soldiers escaping the front entered the carriage. 15 N.S.) 1917, Sergey and Vladimir Nabokov left Saint Petersburg forever in the sleeping car of the train to Simferopol. The October Revolution forced the Nabokovs to move to the Crimea. The father, being a progressive liberal politician, ran a campaign aimed at abolishing criminal prosecution of homosexuals. Sergey gradually became more alienated in family relations. According to Brian Boyd, delayed remorse provoked the intensiveness with which Vladimir Nabokov later protected his own private life. The family reacted relatively calmly to this fact, partly because Sergey's uncles Konstantin Nabokov and Vasiliy Rukavishnikov were homosexuals. When Sergey was 15, Vladimir found a page of his diary and gave it to his tutor, who later passed the page to the father. He began his education at Tenishevski's school, where he studied for five years, and then transferred to the First Junior High School. Sergey spent the first years of his life at the Nabokov house on Bolshaya Morskaya Street in Saint Petersburg, and at the family's suburban estate in Vyra, near Siversky. The Nabokov children in 1918 (from left to right): Vladimir, Kirill, Olga, Sergey and Elena
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