High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Gift (Russian: Дар, Dar; ISBN 0-679-72725-6) is Vladimir Nabokov`s final Russian novel, and is considered to be his farewell to the world he was leaving behind. Nabokov wrote it between 1935 and 1937 while living in Berlin, and it was published in serial form under his nom de plume, Vladimir Sirin.