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A Gentleman In Moscow

By Amor Towles

A wonderful book which gives the reader an understanding of life in post revolution Moscow, through the eyes of a Russian aristocrat sentenced to life in Moscow’s Metropol Hotel.
~ Her Majesty Queen Camilla
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Publish Date: 2016

Moscow, 1922. Count Alexander Rostov is escorted out of the Bolshevik tribunal held in the Kremlin and into the grand Metropol Hotel. An unrepentant aristocrat, he is sentenced to live the rest of his life on the sixth floor of the historic establishment under penalty of death. While a tumultuous era for Russia is unfolding, behind the doors of the Metropol Hotel the Count will undergo his own journey of emotional discovery.

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