The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native Russian and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career.nbsp;nbsp;It is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the works of Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the course of its narrative:nbsp;nbsp;the story of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished émigré poet living in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will someday write--a book very much like The Gift itself.