He is an old man, and he and Anna will simply concoct some semi-plausible cover story under which he will live out his days, but not cooped up in a tiny room. On the contrary, his life in bondage was quite rich and purposeful. Below is a screenshot of the cover image of A Gentleman in Moscow PDF: Anna was the one who was always described as willowy. A Gentleman in Moscow is a novel where the journey far more outweighs the destination. Some were insisting it was Nina, the girl in yellow. Pasha = bellhop He had no papers; he was on death sentence if he left the hotel. Well done, Mr. Towles! Ever to see Paris again? The novel "A Gentleman in Moscow" provides us with a rich slice of Russian history. View production, box office, & company info Get More From IMDb. I don't think he'd risk leaving her alone in the world. What I don't get is, how did the Finnish man not realise his passport was gone in the couple of days before Rostov left the Metropol, when in the book it actually stated that foreigners apparently always kept their passports on them in Moscow? His best friend wrote the poem which condemned him to the hotel. Rick does not get on the plane with Ilsa, he stays behind and "fights the good fight," even though that choice was personally, tremendously difficult for him. 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. READ ALSO: Top 6 best books by Stephen King, Image: instagram.com, @littlehousegreySource: UGC. Over the course of the last twenty years, this husband and wife team has been systematically translating the works of Russia’s golden age including those by Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov. Did it say that? As a parent, one can think about the nobility of sending our child off to a safer place. I thought it was the only ending that it could have been! A Gentleman in Moscow is written by Amor Towles, and it tells the story of Count Alexander Rostov, who is a Russian aristocrat. Most readers think that the woman could be Nina, Sofia's mother. Sofia never came back to the hotel, nor did she communicate with Count even though she had promised to come back for her daughter after finding a good job and a better place to live. Although the Count was imprisoned during the onset of Communism, he saw the changes in government reflected in the way the hotel operated. I loved the book. How it could it get any better than that for a man who had lived the better part of his life inside a hotel? It’s been awhile, but I don’t recall anything was said that he gave away all of his money. Count went to his family's estate and met Anna at the tavern waiting for him. Exceptional storytelling brings a changing Moscow inside the walls of one building. 2 yrs. READ ALSO: Margaret Ogola: Google celebrates renowned Kenyan novelist, Image: instagram.com, @vintagevivianneSource: UGC. So no one probably even looked for him or Anna! I think the Count left the hotel to protect Sofia. Made no sense to me. Imagine you are Amor Towles reading over this thread. She leaves him for another. After this occasion, Count changed his thoughts and befriended the employees in the hotel such as Marina, the hotel's seamstress who taught him to sew, and Anna, the famous actress in Russia. Over the next two hundred pages detailed descriptions accumulate of people, rooms, objects, memories, and … As the novel comes to an end, Count began making plans on how to escape from the hotel together with Sofia. It would have not been very believable in the story for him to be able to get out too. He launched Sofia into the world -- recall where he told her she had to venture into the unknown, not just read about it within the walls of the hotel. Not only is Osip not going to attempt to find him, but everyone thinks he left Russia and went to Finland. At the end of the novel, waiting for him has been used as imagery. Osip is the key! That he met up with Anna and presumably they were happy together living the rest of their days in a place that could be more like the old Russia of his youth, was unexpected and genius. Count developed a relationship with the famous Russian actress by the name Anna, who was working in the Metropol hotel. Rostov getting out of Russia would be too "romantic" an ending, I think. Both her parents dead, Rostov and everyone she'd ever known lost to her, even her homeland. What appeared at first to be a delightful series of intertwined vignettes became a novel of humor and history with characters that made me want to step into the lobby of the Metropol Hotel, run up and down the staircases and dine in the Boyarsky. He had to send info with her so she could be protected by the Americans. We needn't worry too much about him. I thought the twist of going "home" was brilliant for a character who had been entrapped for so long. I am so disappointed. That is really the only ending that sits well with me, though I realize that it is a very different tone than the rest of the story. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. I don't think the Bishop will ever find the count because the Bishop thinks the count is all about surface aspects of wealth and fame so he would assume The Count will be in some world capital living large. I was also confused by the ending. The “willowy” character was definitely Anna as the word was used to describe Anna several times. When Count made his way out of the hotel, Anna was waiting for him in their family estate. A Gentleman in Moscow is one of the impressing novels that I have ever come across. Sophia is not like the Tzar or Ivan's child, condemned or being cradled as a dead child - Sophia is not his biological child but a child of Russia connecting again the relationship between Russia and Paris - while he and Anna gradually fade into oblivion and are willing to "destroy that which we have created". I hate to write this but, in my opinion, with the way this book ends, Count Rostov is likely to die very soon either by suicide or from KGB torture in Lubyanka prison and all his friends in the Hotel Metropol, his girlfriend and Sofia’s piano instructor are likely to end up in Lubyanka also. I came here looking to find answers- just finished the book myself. I listened to the book via Audible's excellent production so thought perhaps I missed something when I got to the end - which I initially didn't understand. But as the whole novel was something of a fairy story, I think it would have worked just fine. The Count was all about the simple pleasures of courtesy, appreciation, shared history which is why he returned to his home. No one is going to look for him. So yes, they are separated, but to my mind, both happily. They were hiding in the country, away from cities where the theaters were. He could have stayed in Paris when the revolution broke out, yet he chose to return home. They also have translated The Master & … He is deeply disturbed by her departure and ruminates many nights for a long time. Anna was the one who was always described as willowy. I'd hoped Rostov would get out of Russia, reunite with his daughter in Paris and the actress would catch up later. We slowly turn away from who we are gaining height on the wheel, then every move is a step to get back to what we worked hard to leave. We get on, and have a desire to leave our situations, go around, but at the top or far away, there’s a pull to circle back to the ground- where we began. However, Count stated in the novel that he never saw Nina again, and this message was clear to the end. Still, I'm not sure how I feel about he ending. We are all invited to carry these wonderful characters to a last chapter of our own, based on the tapestry of details the author has sewn into the lining of the book. Thank you for sharing. Someone would recognize her with him. On June 21, 1954, Viktor Stepanovich leaves his apartment just before midnight in order to keep his appointment, takes a bus to St. Petersburg Station, and waits in a café. character. I think that uncertainty is part of the beauty of the ending. But, in the end, he wanted to go back to his old stomping grounds...where the apple trees were blooming. Reading a well-written novel tantalizes the imagination, boosts your vocabulary, and broadens the horizon. Later on, the man who composed the controversial poem died, and Count escaped from the hotel. He loved Sofia so much and could actually have got out of the Soviet union himself . Otherwise he is acting totally out of character. She was left under Count's care when her mother Nina left to search for her husband, who had been taken by the regime. The novel leaves the reader in. He. Having worked as an investment … He gave the Americans what they wanted, so they will keep their end of the bargain and get them to safety in New York. But you would never know it. He came back, because Russia was his home. And the KGB man was willing to let him go. Rick put his own desires second. By the end of the book, I felt like the Count was an old friend. This is a genuine PDF e-book file. In other words, Towles has got us right where he wants us. Well, the woman at the end of the novel is Anna, the girlfriend of Count. After all- when she is hurt- he doesn't hesitate to leave the hotel. From the moment the Count passes through the hotel’s revolving doors, the narrative begins opening steadily outward. Casablanca was an excellent choice as a method of foreshadowing. Count was sentenced to a house arrest for being associated with a poem which had revolutionary overtones even though he was not the one who composed it. Filmed Summer 2018. Anna will have connections. I can't see that he would have had Sofia make the escape if he didn't plan on, at least, trying to meet up with her. He needed to set her free from being tethered to him. Notwithstanding his determination to stage manage Sofia's defection it is not surprising that he did not select a life abroad for himself. The suicidal idea was changed by the hotel's handyman, Abram, who shared with him about the honey that the bees that he kept on the roof had made. She brings the manuscript to Rostov and then 'fades' into Russia. I think early 20 th century Russian history is super interesting, so I’ve read a bunch of books about Lenin and Stalin. The Count must adjust not only to his new circumstances in a small room in the hotel’s belfry but also to the knowledge that … I have a question though....I missed the point of why Rostov published the poem rather than the real author who was not ashamed of being a socialist. While … So they must have agreed to meet. A beautiful reminder that a rich life is made of so much more than one's circumstances, and that purpose is often found in the most unexpected places. READ ALSO: You should be married and with kids if you read any of these high school set-books. Rostov did some very ungentlemanly things at the end which were totally out of character. The presence of the "willowy" Anna does add an element that suggests their love is likely doomed, but in such a small town, and a ruin, maybe not. He will have more of those gold sovereigns. I believe that with her talent, he realized that , in his situation, and also with Russia being what it was, that he would not be able to see her much and she was his daughter. It is his second novel, published five years after his New York Times best seller, Rules of Civility (2011). His work has been translated into more than thirty-five languages. I'm not sure that Anna would have left with him though. Image: instagram.com, @whenthedaymetnightSource: UGC. Given that the Count was ‘Russian to his core’ and had returned home to his roots in the first place he wouldn’t leave his homeland. On June 21, 1922, Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov is sentenced to a life of house arrest in Moscow’s Metropol Hotel. But it certainly is reasonable for us to wish he could be reuni. Published in 2016, A Gentleman in Moscow, by American author Amor Towles, is the story of Count Alexander Rostov, a Russian nobleman who, after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, is sentenced to lifelong imprisonment in Moscow’s Metropol Hotel. Like, he was in love with her. It is served in a sphere of ice that one can break into the glass. The bees and their special honey and the hidden gold in the bureau etc. Lea: Apparently, all Rostov was trying to do was get his "daughter" out of Russia and get himself free to stay in Russia with his girlfriend, the actress. So glad to see other's initial impression was confusion about the ending. I, also, think it would have been crazy not to leave if he was hanging out with Anna. In the spirt of classic Russian literature, held so dearly in this novel, it is the fate of characters to suffer within their environs while seeking bits of pleasure in an otherwise tragic story. Sofia grew up well under the care of Count and became a talented pianist. Also, would she have been persuaded to leave if he wasn't coming. With as much as the author obviously knows about the Soviet Union, I don’t understand how he could choose this ending for the book. Last Reviewed on June 19, 2019, by eNotes Editorial. I was going to relisten to the last chapter again, but decided to Google instead. The Count knew that Sofia was ready to be on her own and as such, her life was to follow a different trajectory than his. It's something every parent finds out, that they have to let go and find life anew, on their own again. He loves his Best Friend. I think he wanted to see his old home one more time before leaving to join Sophia. Just finished the book.. which I enjoyed enormously... but.. it's very 'old fashioned' ... for Rostov to be such a 'goody two shoes' gets a bit grating.. to have no cynicism or malice makes him unbelievable. I think that is up to the reader. I thought maybe the willowy character was his sister. I agree with Christy. https://www.tuko.co.ke/312185-a-gentleman-moscow-explained.html I loved the ending. Best ending ever -- the Count remains with his true (sentimental) loves after setting his young dearest free. CHARACTERS: Count Alexander Rostov born 1889 – 1954 (65 years old at end of book) 33 years old when imprisoned; 6’3” sentenced June 21, 1922 Sasha = nick name of Count given by Mishka his childhood friend. These actions seemed totally unnecessary and counter to anything a gentleman … His best friend is loved by Katarina, i believe. When she was 17 years old, she was lucky to be invited to participate in a goodwill concert, which was to take place in Paris. inti-revista.org News ☛ ⭐A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW⭐ is one of the New York Times Best Selling novels. It was clear to me that the passport theft was a ruse, so the authorities wouldn't search for him, and he took up life with Anna in his hometown. If you have ever read this novel, then one of the questions that come through your mind as the story comes to a close is "who is that willowy woman with the graying hair that appears at the end?" Also the Count has built up a powerful associates in Osip, who would protect him. A Gentleman in Moscow gave me a new perspective on the era, even though it’s fictional. The ending is true to the character of Count Rostov who retained his love and connection with his native country through all the years of his house arrest in the Hotel Metropole. I suspect devoted readers will be making pilgrimages to it, like they do to Kurt Wallander’s Ystad, but unlike the Grand Budapest Hotel, this one is real. Anna rekindled her love for Count whenever she visited the Metropol. The Ending: ONLY if you've read the book (spoilers). He wouldn't have been well known at his family area at this age but he would have known the area well. I am confused about the ending and need help figuring it out. With that being said, having finished this novel, I was satisfied with how the ending is written. The woman he meets is definitely Anna, as she was described as willowy throughout the novel. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Windmill Books, Random House, 2016 _____ Every so often a peripatetic reader such as myself comes across a book that stays in mind long after the finish, one to which you surreptitiously return, guiltily knowing you are not reducing the waiting bedside pile by dipping again into one already read. Over the course of the last 20 years, this husband and wife team has been systematically translating the works of Russia’s golden age, including those by Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov. In the novel, Count did not give up while he was under house arrest. Various readers of the same novel claim that they were inspired to read it more than once. Yes, we're all a bit confused about the aftermath of the Afterword: is the Count ever to be re-united with Sofia? There are so many questions that remain answered at this point, and we shall attempt to address some of them. It is Anna he meets with in the end. I was so sure the count would defect in order to be with Sofia. As with any great writer, Amor Towles wants his readers to meet him halfway. Notes from A Gentleman in Moscow 1922 – 1954 Tale over 32 years. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, … 20 of the best book quotes from A Gentleman in Moscow #1 “In the end, a parent’s responsibility could not be more simple: To bring a child safely into adulthood so that she could have a chance to experience a life of purpose and, God willing, contentment.” author. If you recall he did leave Russia before the revolution but came back knowing the risks. Alas, why not end your tour with “A Gentleman in Moscow” cocktail? I simply loved this book. For an enhanced browsing experience, get the IMDb app on your smartphone or tablet. concepts. Pavel = doorman. Could an author ask for a better tribute to the ending he chose for his book? And as she got older, she performed on stage which would not have been seen by as many. Count Rostov staying in Russia at his own peril as we read the bit in Book Three, his discussion with Mishka - when he ponders and even asks Osip if the Russian character is to kill its own progeny - and so the progeny killed would be his being a gentleman which dies with him. It was worth the gamble to see that Sofia was not controlled and that he could see her grow and her life. Well, yes. Even though Count was imprisoned during the onset of Communism; he could see the changes in the government operations that reflected the hotels' operations. Well, yes. To me, it was all about the Ferris wheel of life. Having that missing connection leaves a certain melancholy note to an otherwise perfectly satisfying finish. Who is the woman Count Rostov meets at the... — A Gentleman... Q&A. There can be no doubt the count deeply loved Sofia as his daughter. But alone, it would be a loss too great for sensitive Sofia to bear. The story specified that the woman he met at the end had gray hair and I believe the willow reference refers to Anna. Sofia. I have just finished the book and was also puzzled by the ending. The Count thanks Viktor for coming, and then they see a scuffle between two fruit sellers on the other side of the café. We hope that you find this book interesting. 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Welcome back. If A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW stirs or renews your interest in Russian literature, I recommend the translations of Pevear & Volokhonsky. A Gentleman in Moscow. They'll come in handy. He loved her so much that he wanted, like her mother Nina before her, for Sofia to be free to follow her own course in the world. I think the Caruso example, only emphasized that the wheel can go around and around again. He told him that the honey had a taste of apples from Nizhny Novgorod, which is a place in Russia where they both grew up. Why in the world would Towles have Rostov hold the Bishop at gunpoint, shoot the picture of Stalin and imprison Rostov in the furnace room? Fyodor = fruit seller. One of his friends in the hotel, Nina, brought her daughter Sofia to him after being sent by the Russian regime to accomplish some hard labor in Sevvostlag following the arrest of her husband. Amor Towles opens the novel on 21 June 1922, with the Count being tried in front of the Emergency Committee of the … A Gentleman in Moscow Quotes. Sophia is not like the Tzar or Ivan's child, condemned or being cradled as a dead child - Sophia … ago, so I don't remember about the passports, but good question. He does not want her to end up like Katarina. Is it possible that Rostov used the bullet in the second dueling gun to kill himself, and the last scene was a fantasy of his return, with the two little kids being himself and his sister when they were young? So here's a thought about the willowy woman.....The book, for me, is about a man who lives by loyalty and friendship. I appreciate the challenge this ending presents! We could believe no one was looking for Anna because she came and went all the time so it wasn't unusual. She Loves his Best Friend. Above: Photos of the actual Metropol Hotel and surroundings. I kept seeing all the rave reviews and wondered if we all read the same ending. I want him to leave. As confused as you are!! I for one am happy to be here. He loved Russia, but he also loved Sofia and he knew that her mother would want her to be able to express herself freely. Image: instagram.com, @emilys_librarySource: UGC. Katarina is his reason for getting Sofia out or Russia. Her other life seemed pretty good too. He hadn't used the other bullet on The Bishop because he wasn't an aristocrat. Book: A Gentleman in Moscow Author: Amor Towles Edition: Hardcover . The sentence is handed down by a Bolshevik tribunal because the Count had written a poem in 1913 with revolutionary undertones. If A Gentleman in Moscow stirs or renews your interest in Russian literature, I recommend the translations of Pevear & Volokhonsky. You want to recapture … It couldn’t be his sister. Rostov loved Russia. He may have planned to go to Helsinki, but he knew the bishop had seen the travel book on Finland so felt he would be caught. I loved the quirky characters with all their wit and charm. She died of scarlet fever when she was 17. And now I am more torn with my thoughts for the end. It is Anna he meets with in the end. If you are the kind of person who loves expanding your intellect, then the novel "A Gentleman in Moscow" is a must-read. It has been interesting reading the different interpretations given here. His friend, the KGB man, has simply ordered the "rounding up of the usual suspects," and the unimaginative, one-dimensional thinker, "the Bishop," thinks Count Rostov has fled to Finland and beyond. Get the IMDb … Such a novel takes us away from our existence and places us in another person's skin. I was like 'But she was like a DAUGHTER!!'. By the end of the book, I felt like the Count was an old friend. His second novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, published in 2016, was also a New York Times bestseller and was named as one of the best books of 2016 by the Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, the San Francisco Chronicle, and NPR. But you can’t resist. I was a beautiful ending, and nothing else was needed to complete the book. The Count gave Sophia a chance for a life outside Russia, which is something that he didn't want to give up even if it meant living without anything except the willowy woman near his childhood home. Anyone might be quick to think that Count had an unfulfilling life while in the Metropol Hotel. Reading this brought to mind the famous “hotel” nove… It was after this when he decided to kill himself by jumping off the roof of the building in which he was imprisoned. He's a man who keeps his promises. They finally made their way out. Well done and Bravo, Mr. Towles! 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