Halensee

Nestorstraße 22 was the last of ten apartments Nabokov occupied in Berlin, and the one in which he lived the longest. Nabokov never disguised his antipathy for Berlin, the city where he spent the first part of his exile from Russia, where he buried his beloved father, a liberal politician assassinated by Russian protofascists in 1922, and which he fled in 1937 after the assassin was freed from prison and given a prominent role in émigré affairs by the Gestapo.