Drugie berega, meaning Other Shores, is Nabokov's Russian-language autobiography, a version of the memoir later known in English as Speak, Memory. It recalls his childhood in a privileged St Petersburg family, summers on the country estate, his parents, tutors, early loves, and his first passion for butterflies. It then follows his departure from Russia and his years of emigre life in Europe. Written with luminous detail and a precise, poetic memory, it is both a portrait of a lost world and a reflection on how the past can be recovered through art.