Living in a posh suite, he is later forced to live with the ghosts in the attic. He has status however and so has friends in hight places who are willing and able to protect him.

Alexander does not want to be a part of Moscow now, he sees a great country and does not like what he sees. He has been accused of writing a counter-revolutionary poem and so is now in front of the Emergency Committee of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs. This has led to a city living on the edge, nervous of its own shadow and worried about its future.

A revolution which is has been violent and has caused ripples of anger and resentment across the world. But instead of his usual suite, he must now live in an attic room while Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval.Moscow is at the centre of turmoil and upheaval following the Russian Revolution. On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov – recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt – is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol.ĭeemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. It's elegant, witty and delightful - much like the Count himself.' Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year ‘Charming … shows that not all books about Russian aristocrats have to be full of doom and nihilism’ The Times, Books of the Year ‘No historical novel this year was more witty, insightful or original than Amor Towles’s A Gentleman in Moscow’ Sunday Times, Books of the Year ‘This novel is astonishing, uplifting and wise.

***Soon to be a major TV series starring Kenneth Branagh*** From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility – a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel.Ĭhosen as an isolation read by Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall: ‘A wonderful book which gives the reader an understanding of life in post-revolution Moscow’

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