A gentleman in Moscow : a novel
A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. 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..."--
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Audiobooks. Historical fiction. Sound recordings. Fiction. |
- ISBN: 9780735288522
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Physical Description
sound disc
14 audio discs (17 hr., 53 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. - Edition Unabridged.
- Publisher [Westminster, MD] : Books on Tape ; New York : Random House Audio, [2016]
- Copyright 2016
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General Note: | Title from container. Compact disc. GMD: compact disc. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Nicholas Guy Smith. |