Tyrants Destroyed 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 but the last one were written in Russian by Nabokov between 1924 and 1939 as an expatriate in Berlin

Berlin

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, Paris

Paris

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, and Menton

Menton

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, and later 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:...

. These stories appeared first individually in the Russian émigré press. The last story was written in English in Ithaca, New York

Ithaca, New York

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 in 1951. The collection was published in 1974.

Stories included

• "Tyrants Destroyed"
• "A Nursery Tale
  A Nursery Tale
  A Nursery Tale is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov first published in the expatriate Russian newspaper Rul on 27 and 29 June 1926 and in the book form in The Return of Chorb in 1930...
  
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• "Music"
• "Lik"
• "Recruiting"
• "Terror"
• "The Admiralty Spire"
• "A Matter of Chance
  A Matter of Chance
  A Matter of Chance is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov written in Russian under his pen name Vladimir Sirin in Berlin in 1924. It was rejected by the newspaper Rul and first published by the emigre magazine Segodnya in Riga...
  
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• "In Memory of L. I. Shigaev"
• "Bachmann
  Bachmann (short story)
  "Bachmann" is a short story written in Russian by Vladimir Nabokov under his nom-de-plume V. Sirin in Berlin in 1924. It was first published in Rul, a Russian émigré paper founded by his father, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, and later included in a number of short story collections: Vozvrashchenie...
  
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• "Perfection"
• "Vasiliy Shishkov"
• "The Vane Sisters
  The Vane Sisters
  "The Vane Sisters" is the penultimate short story by Vladimir Nabokov, written in March 1951. It is famous for providing one of the most extreme examples of an unreliable narrator...
  
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