![]() ![]() So that is where he’s put under house arrest. As a gentleman, he is staying and has been in the Metropole Hotel in Moscow for several years. They decide they can’t execute him, but they don’t want to let him go free because he could still cause them trouble later. Then the icing on the cake is the connections that he has. However, the man that sits before them seems to be an unapologetic gentleman or nobility, and there’s no room for him in their now Marxist communist regime because of those two things. ![]() As far as the Bolsheviks are concerned, that is a positive for him. He had written the poem that we read in our younger years, which was a call to rebellion or revolution against the previous regime. After the Bolshevik Revolution, he was on trial. He was an aristocrat under the old regime. It begins with a poem, and then we read the transcript of a Bolshevik tribunal, Alexander Rostov’s trial. This book takes place in Russia in 1922 Moscow. ![]() What if you have to spend the rest of your life inside a luxury hotel? The book is written in a very lucid language, so it’s a very easy read. A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles is historical fiction and cultural book that describes Russian culture. ![]()
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