In this collection of short stories Vladimir Nabokov reflects upon the Russian "emigre" world of the 20s and 30s. Disconsolate, uprooted characters make up a tapestry which is shot through with nostalgia and irony. 

A Russian Beauty and Other Stories is a collection of thirteen short stories by Russian author Vladimir Nabokov. The short stories in this collection were originally written in Russian between 1927 and 1940 under the pseudonym Vladimir Sirin. Before being collated into short story collections, some were published by various European Russian émigré newspapers and magazines. 

This collection was published in English in 1973 by McGraw-Hill in New York, it was translated by Nabokov himself and his son Dmitri Nabokov as well as Simon Karlinsky who collaborated with the author to translate the first short story "A Russian Beauty".