Book Review, Synopsis and Plot Summary for A Gentleman in Moscow. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles is a delightful novel that somehow completely slipped
A Gentleman in Moscow: With Ewan McGregor, Johnny Harris, Leah Harvey, John Heffernan. A Russian aristocrat is spared from death and placed on house arrest while the Bolshevik Revolution plays out before him.
That one scene aside,A Gentleman in Moscowis a fun, clever, and surprisingly upbeat look at Russian history through the eyes of one man. At the beginning of the book, Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov is sentenced to spend his life under house arrest in Moscow’s Metropol Hotel. It’s 1922,...