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A Gentleman in Moscow
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The Metropol
Description: 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.
summer solstice (Kupala) - Kremlin
Glad that Homer was not born in Japan
A beautiful lady with two Borzoi
Wild appletree forest Nizhny Novgorod. Do not eat from the black-apple trees.
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Mar 21, 2018
bookshelves: spring-2018, tbr-busting-2018, russia, soviet, legaleagles-or-courtcase, poetry, published-2016, a-cut-above, beautifully-put, casual-violence, class-war, courage, cruelty-disguised-as-law, decline-disintergration-degradation, fraudio, future-has-ancient-heart, games-people-play, historical-fiction, how-the-mighty-fall, life-is-cheap-around-here, lit-richer, look-behind-you, newtome-author, pass-the-tissues, politics, prisoner, revolution, russia-moscow, spies, whimsy, philosophy, books-about-books-and-book-shops, lit-crit, cult-yah, war, totalitarian, tick-tock-clocks, teh-brillianz, standalone, stalinism, society, socialism, rid-the-world-of-tyrants, psychology, loneliness, love, lifestyles-deathstyles, food-glorious-food, fascinating-fayre, families, fab-footnotes, cold-case, character-growth, censorship
The MetropolDescription: 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. summer solstice (Kupala) - KremlinGlad that Homer was not born in JapanA beautiful lady with two BorzoiWild appletree forest Nizhny Novgorod. Do not eat from the black-apple trees.
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Quotes Bettie Liked
“if a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
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January 28, 2017
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March 21, 2018
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March 28, 2018
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I loved the book but confess I didn't bother to look to see what Borzoi dogs look like, beyond Towles' description. As for Branagh as the Count... no, no, no. Utterly wrong for me. Ralph Fiennes would be better had he not already been so memorable as M Gustav in The Grand Budapest Hotel.
that'll do me
:O)