From fiction to reality: Metropol Hotel and Moscow's 'lost aristocracy'
Metropol Hotel, the setting for Amor Towles' novel A Gentleman in Moscow, is just as readers might imagine.
Metropol Hotel, the setting for Amor Towles' novel A Gentleman in Moscow, is just as readers might imagine.
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