On page 14, the Count reflects about how we say goodbye to friends and family, however, there’s not much experience parting with our dearest possessions. From the start, there’s plenty of philosophical observations.What did you think about the descriptions of the hotel? What about Rostov’s room in the attic? It’s no one’s choice to be under house arrest but I suppose if it has to happen, at least the Metropol is a posh hotel.As you’re reading this section, what did you think about his unusual reaction? Were you surprised he wasn’t devastated? What does this say about Rostov’s character? How would you have reacted if you were him? Yet, for a man sentenced to house arrest, he’s fairly cheerful and doesn’t seem that daunted. The year is 1922 and Rostov is about to spend seemingly the rest of his life at the Metropol hotel.

So have your copy handy as your book club discusses this one! Book Club Questions for A Gentlemen in Moscow Book One Since there’s so much going on with this book, I have divided the book club questions for A Gentlemen in Moscow into the five sections (books) and the afterward. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery. 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. In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin.

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