Demidov counseled him to be strong for his sister Helena, because ".adversity presents itself in many forms, and if a man does not master his circumstances, then he is bound to be mastered by them." The Rostov siblings are aristocrats, making social visits to nearby estates by horse-drawn troika or sleigh.Īs a young man, the Count was sent out of the country (as was the custom at the time) by his grandmother for wounding Helena's suitor, a cad who broke her heart. When the Count's parents died of cholera within hours of each other in 1900, Grand Duke Demidov became the 11-year-old's guardian. Rostov's godfather was his father's comrade in the cavalry, Grand Duke Demidov. He was raised on his Rostov family's estate "Idlehour" in Nizhny Novgorod. The protagonist is the fictional Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on 24 October 1889. It is his second novel, published five years after his New York Times best seller, Rules of Civility (2011). A Gentleman in Moscow is a 2016 novel by Amor Towles.
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