| English title | Original language | Original publication | Original English collection |
|---|
| "The Wood-Sprite" | Russian | Rul' (1921) | - |
| "Russian Spoken Here" | Russian | - (composed 1923) | - |
| "Sounds" | Russian | The New Yorker (1995; composed 1923) | - |
| "Wingstroke" | Russian | Russkoye Ekho (1924) | - |
| "Gods" | Russian | (composed 1923) | - |
| "A Matter of Chance" | Russian | Segodnya (1924) | Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1974) |
| "The Seaport" | Russian | Rul' (1924) | - |
| "Revenge" | Russian | Russkoye Ekho (1924) | - |
| "Beneficence" | Russian | Rul' (1924) | - |
| "Details of a Sunset" | Russian | Segodnya (1924) | Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976) |
| "The Thunderstorm" | Russian | Rul' (1924) | Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976) |
| "La Veneziana" | Russian | (composed 1924) | - |
| "Bachmann" | Russian | Rul' (1924) | Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1974) |
| "The Dragon" | Russian | (composed 1924) | - |
| "Christmas" | Russian | Rul' (1925) | Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976) |
| "A Letter That Never Reached Russia" | Russian | Rul' (1925) | Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976) |
| "The Fight" | Russian | Rul' (1925) | - |
| "The Return of Chorb" | Russian | Rul' (1925) | Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976) |
| "A Guide to Berlin" | Russian | Rul' (1925) | Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976) |
| "A Nursery Tale" | Russian | Rul' (1926) | Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1974) |
| "Terror" | Russian | Sovremennya Zapiski (1927) | Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1974) |
| "Razor" | Russian | Rul' (1926) | - |
| "The Passenger" | Russian | Rul' (1927) | Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976) |
| "The Doorbell" | Russian | Rul' (1927) | Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976) |
| "An Affair of Honor" | Russian | Rul' (1927) | A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1973) |
| "The Christmas Story" | Russian | Rul' (1928) | - |
| "The Potato Elf" | Russian | Rul' (1929) | A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1973) |
| "The Aurelian" | Russian | Sovremennya Zapiski (1931) | Nabokov's Dozen (1958) |
| "A Dashing Fellow" | Russian | Segodnya (early 1930s) | A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1973) |
| "A Bad Day" | Russian | Poslednie Novosti (1931) | Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976) |
| "The Visit to the Museum" | Russian | Sovremennya Zapiski (1939) | A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1973) |
| "A Busy Man" | Russian | Poslednie Novosti (1931) | Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976) |
| "Terra Incognita" | Russian | Poslednie Novosti (1931) | A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1973) |
| "The Reunion" | Russian | Poslednie Novosti (1932) | Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976) |
| "Lips to Lips" | Russian | Vesna v Fialte (1956) | A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1973) |
| "Orache" | Russian | Poslednie Novosti (1932) | Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976) |
| "Music" | Russian | Poslednie Novosti (1932) | Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1974) |
| "Perfection" | Russian | Poslednie Novosti (1932) | Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1974) |
| "The Admiralty Spire" | Russian | Poslednie Novosti (1933) | Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1974) |
| "The Leonardo" | Russian | Poslednie Novosti (1933) | A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1973) |
| "In Memory of L. I. Shigaev" | Russian | Poslednie Novosti (1934) | Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1974) |
| "The Circle" | Russian | Poslednie Novosti (presumed; 1936) | A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1973) |
| "A Russian Beauty" | Russian | Poslednie Novosti (1934) | A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1973) |
| "Breaking the News" | Russian | unknown, circa 1935 | A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1973) |
| "Torpid Smoke" | Russian | Poslednie Novosti (1935) | A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1973) |
| "Recruiting" | Russian | Poslednie Novosti (1935) | Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1974) |
| "A Slice of Life" | Russian | Poslednie Novosti (1935) | Details of a Sunset and Other Stories (1976) |
| "Spring in Fialta" | Russian | Sovremennya Zapiski (1937) | Nabokov's Dozen (1958) |
| "Cloud, Castle, Lake" | Russian | Sovremennya Zapiski (1938) | Nabokov's Dozen (1958) |
| "Tyrants Destroyed" | Russian | Russkiya Zapiski (1938) | Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1974) |
| "Lik" | Russian | Russkiya Zapiski (1939) | Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1974) |
| "Vasiliy Shishkov" | Russian | Russkiya Zapiski (1939) | Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1974) |
| "Ultima Thule" | Russian | Novyy Zhurnal (1942) | A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1973) |
| "Solus Rex" | Russian | Sovremennya Zapiski (1940) | A Russian Beauty and Other Stories (1973) |
| "Mademoiselle O" | French | Mesures (1936) | Nabokov's Dozen (1958) |
| "The Assistant Producer" | English | Atlantic Monthly | Nabokov's Dozen (1958) |
| "That in Aleppo Once…" | English | Atlantic Monthly | Nabokov's Dozen (1958) |
| "A Forgotten Poet" | English | Atlantic Monthly | Nabokov's Dozen (1958) |
| "Time and Ebb" | English | Atlantic Monthly | Nabokov's Dozen (1958) |
| "Conversation Piece, 1945" | English | The New Yorker (1945) | Nabokov's Dozen (1958) |
| "Signs and Symbols" | English | The New Yorker (1948) | Nabokov's Dozen (1958) |
| "First Love" | English | The New Yorker (1948) | Nabokov's Dozen (1958) |
| "Scenes from the Life of a Double Monster" | English | The Reporter | Nabokov's Dozen (1958) |
| "The Vane Sisters" | English | Hudson Review (1959) | Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories (1974) |
| "Lance" | English | The New Yorker (1952) | Nabokov's Dozen (1958) |
| "Easter Rain" | Russian | Russkoe Ekho (1925) | 11th U.S. paperback printing (2002) |
| "The Word" | Russian | Rul' (1923) | 15th U.S. paperback printing (2006) |
| "Natasha" | Russian | The New Yorker (2008; composed 1924) | 17th U.S. paperback printing (2008) |
