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A Gentleman in Moscow is a critically acclaimed 2016 historical-fiction novel set in the Metropol Hotel in Moscow from 1922 to 1954 American author Amor Towles
. In the novel, Count Alexander Ilych Rostov is an aristocrat sentenced by a Bolshevik tribunal to a lifetime of confinement in the luxury hotel. While the country he once knew transforms outside his door, the Count undertakes his own transformation in a decades-long quest for purpose. A Gentleman in Moscow was adapted into an 8-part mini-series adaptation of with Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead on Paramount+ on 2024.Read the full book summary, a part-by-part Summary & Analysis, or explanations of important quotes from A Gentleman in Moscow.