The Count remains in Russia, however, and moves into the Metropol Hotel in Moscow.
After the October revolution in 1917 and the assassination of the Tsar, many of the Count’s relatives, including his grandmother, left Russia in order to avoid being killed by the Bolsheviks. His parents died when he was ten years old, and he was subsequently raised by his grandmother, the Countess.
A member of the Russian aristocracy, the Count was raised in an estate in the Nizhny Novgorod province along with his sister Helena. The Count is the protagonist and titular character of A Gentleman in Moscow. Book 5, Antagonists at Arms (And an Absolution).Book 3, Antics, Antitheses, an Accident.Book 2, 1923, An Actress, an Apparition, an Apiary.
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