A novel written by Vladimir Nabokov (under his pen name V. Sirin), while living in Berlin and sojourning at resorts in the Baltic in 1928. It was published as Король, дама, валет (Korol’, dama, valet) in Russian in October of that year; the novel was translated into English by the author’s son Dmitri Nabokov (with significant changes made by the author) in 1968, forty years after its Russian debut.