Editing Vladimir Nabokov (section)

====Marriage====
In 1922, Nabokov became engaged to Svetlana Siewert, but she broke the engagement off early in 1923 when her parents worried whether he could provide for her.<ref>{{cite news| url= https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/schiff-vera.html | work= The New York Times |title= Vera, chapter 1, para 6 |first= Stacy|last=Schiff}}</ref> In May 1923, he met [[Véra Evseyevna Slonim]], a Russian-Jewish woman,<!-- do not put ethnicity first --> at a charity ball in Berlin.<ref name= "MA">{{Citation | author-link = Martin Amis| last = Amis | first = Martin | title = Visiting Mrs Nabokov: And Other Excursions | pages = 115–18 | publisher = [[Penguin Books]] | orig-year = 1993 | edition = reprint | year = 1994 | isbn = 978-0-14-023858-7| title-link = Visiting Mrs Nabokov: And Other Excursions }}.</ref> They married in April 1925.<ref name="MA"/> Their only child, [[Dmitri Nabokov|Dmitri]], was born in 1934.

In the course of 1936, Véra lost her job because of the increasingly antisemitic environment; [[Sergey Taboritsky]] was appointed deputy head of Germany's Russian-émigré bureau; and Nabokov began seeking a job in the English-speaking world.