TY - BOOK AU - Towles,Amor TI - A gentleman in Moscow SN - 9780099558781 (paperback) AV - PS3620.O945 G46 2017 U1 - 813.6 23 PY - 2017/// CY - London, England PB - Windmill Books KW - Hotel Metropol (Moscow, Russia) KW - fast KW - Fiction KW - Bookclub collection KW - Moscow (Russia) - History - Fiction KW - Hotel Metropol (Moscow, Russia) - Fiction KW - Political prisoners KW - Aristocracy (Social class) KW - Aristocracy (Social class) - Fiction KW - Home detention KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Hotels KW - Russia KW - Political prisoners - Fiction KW - Russia (Federation) KW - Moscow KW - Moscow (Russia) KW - History KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft N2 - 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. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. But instead of his usual suite, he must now live in an attic room while Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval. Can a life without luxury be the richest of all? ER -