27|02|08 Recently surfaced: Death certificate of Nathalie Nabokoff from The Hague's city archive Last week Mr. Jan van Griethuysen from Holland (The Hague), our honoured benefactor and donator, has accidently discovered the certificate concerning the death of Natalie Nabokov (writer's aunt from father's side).
The certificate reads as follows:
Heden den negentienden November negentienhonderd acht en dertig verscheen voor mij, Ambtenaar van den Burgerlijken Stand der gemeente 's-Gravenhage
van der Zwan, Johan Adrianus Christiaan, oud zes en vijftig jaren, bedienaar, wonende alhier, die verklaarde, daarvan uit eigen wetenschap
kennis dragende, dat op zeventien dezer, ten zestien ure vijf en veertig minuten, in deze gemeente is overleden: Nabokoff, Nathalie, oud zes en
zeventig jaren, zonder beroep, geboren te Sint-Petersburg in Rusland, wonende alhier, echtgenote van: de Peterson, Ivan, dochter van: Nabokoff, Dimitri en van: Baronesse Korff, Marie, beiden overleden.
Hiervan is deze akte opgemaakt welke overeenkomstig de wet is voorgelezen.
Jac vd Zwan
Boekhout
Translated into English:
This day, the 19th Nov. 1938 appeared before me, civil registrar of the city of the Hague, van der Zwan, Johan Adrianus Christiaan, aged 56 years, administrer, resident here, who declared from his own knowledge, that on the 17th of this month, at 16 hrs 45 minutes, in this municipality has passed away: Nabokoff, Nathalie, aged seventy six years, unemployed, born in St-
Petersburg in Russia, resident here, wife of: de Peterson, Ivan, daughter
of: Nabokoff, Dimitri and of: Baroness Korff, Marie, both deceased.
To which this certificate, which in compliance with the law has been recited, testifies.
Jac vd Zwan
Boekhout
