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A gentleman in Moscow /

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, New York : Viking, an imprint of Random House LLC, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 462 pages : map ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780670026197
  • 0670026190
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Gentleman in MoscowDDC classification:
  • 813/.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3620.O945 G46 2016
Other classification:
  • FIC014000 | FIC019000 | FIC037000
Summary: "A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery..."--
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"A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery..."--

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