Chapter 38
Michael had to walk up and down Bol’shaya Morskaya Street several times before he found the place he was looking for. He knew it had to be nearby because the directions to the St. Petersburg Theosophist Society headquarters stated it was near the Vladimir Nabokov museum, located in the house where the novelist had been born and raised. Nabokov’s family had fled Russia when Lenin and the Bolsheviks took over the government. Nabokov always referred to his childhood home as “the only house in the world,” although he never did return to the city since it remained under Communist rule throughout his life.
Finally, Michael found the Theosophist Society’s location. It was three stories up in an old building a half-block from Nevsky Prospect. Michael climbed the stairs and matched the
