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Fan CastingA Gentleman in Moscow

by Amor Towles

Story added by tvbookcasts on November 30, 2019

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. 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 entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery. read more

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Fan Casting Osip Ivanovich

Role added by tvbookcasts on December 1, 2019

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Description of Osip Ivanovich:

Osip is a friend of the Count. Glebnikov is a former Colonel of the Red Army and current officer of the secret police. He tasks the Count with teaching him the ways of gentlemen in order to improve diplomacy with the West.