A Gentleman in Moscow new-arrivals-060821 Presenting educational

Presenting educational

Through sisterly squabbles

and filled with maps—with an introduction by Rosalind Thomas

deeply personal account of life as seen through the eyes of one of America’s best-loved novelists

A Gentleman in Moscow new-arrivals-060821 Presenting educationalOn 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostovrecipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Huntis escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest within the Metropol. But instead of his usual suite, he must now live in an attic room while Russia undergoes decades of