The article deals with the issue of equivalence of translation of the title in the translingual literature. The story “The Admiralty Spire” by V. Nabokov is in the focus of research. The central image introduced in the title accumulates many sense potentials, first of all, of allusion character, that are not included into the hermeneutic circle of readers of other nations. The analysis of semantic relations of the original and translated variants of the title with the author’s conception of the text is of special interest.