NABOKOV Vladimir - Pale Fire

Gradus, Jakob, 1915-1959; alias Jack Degree, de Grey, d'Argus, Vinogradus,
Leningradus, etc.; a Jack of small trades and a killer, 12, 17; lynching the wrong
people, 80; his approach synchronized with S 's work on the poem, 120, 131; his
election and past tribulations, 171; the first lap of his journey, Onhava to Copenhagen,
181, 209; to Paris, and meeting with Oswin Bretwit, 286; to Geneva, and talk with
little Gordon at Joe Lavender's place near Lex, 408; calling headquarters from Geneva,
469; his name in a variant, and his wait in Geneva, 596; to Nice, and his wait there,
697; his meeting with Izumrudov in Nice and discovery of the King's address, 741;
from Paris to New York, 873; in New York, 949 1 ; his morning in New York, his
journey to New Wye, to the campus, to Dulwich Rd., 949 2 ; the crowning blunder,
1000.
Griff, old mountain farmer and Zemblan patriot, 149.
Grindelwood, a fine town in E. Zembla, 71, 149.
Hiding place, potaynik (q.v.)
Hodinski, Russian adventurer, d. 1800, also known as Hodyna, 681; resided in
Zembla 1778-1800; author of a celebrated pastiche and lover of Princess (later Queen)
Yaruga (q.v.), mother of Igor II, grandmother of Thurgus (q.v.).
Igor II, reigned 1800-1845, a wise and benevolent king, son of Queen Yaruga (q. v.)
and father of Thurgus III (q. v.); a very private section of the picture gallery in the
Palace, accessible, only to the reigning monarch, but easily broken into through
Bower P by an inquisitive pubescent, contained the statues of Igor's four hundred
favorite catamites, in pink marble, with inset glass eyes and various touched up details,
an outstanding exhibition of verisimilitude and bad art, later presented by K. to an
Asiatic potentate.
K, see Charles II and Kinbote.
Kalixhaven, a colorful seaport on the western coast, a few miles north of Blawick
(q.v.), 171; many pleasant memories.
Kinbote, Charles, Dr., an intimate friend of S, his literary adviser, editor and
commentator; first meeting and friendship with S, Foreword; his interest in
Appalachian birds, 1; his good-natured request to have S use his stories, 12; his
modesty, 34; his having no library in his Timonian cave, 39; his belief in his having
inspired S, 42; his house in Dulwich Road, and the windows of S 's house, 47; Prof. H.
contradicted and corrected, 61, 71; his anxieties and insomnias, 62; the map he made
for S, 71; his sense of humor, 79, 91; his belief that the term "iridule" is S 's invention,
109; his weariness, 120; his sports activities, 130; his visit to S 's basement, 143; his
trusting the reader enjoyed the note, 149; boyhood and the Orient Express recalled,
162; his request that the reader consult a later note, 169; his quiet warning to G, 171;
his remarks on critics and other sallies endorsed by S, 172; his participation in certain
festivities elsewhere, his being debarred from S 's birthday party upon coming home,
and his sly trick next morning, 181; his hearing about Hazel's "poltergeist" phase, 230;
poor who?, 231; his futile attempts to have S get off the subject of natural history and
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