![]() ![]() ![]() In the first few weeks and months, the Count has a difficult time coping with his new life. He is a member of the Russian nobility, which is quickly being dissolved in favor of a Communist government structure, and so when he returns to the hotel following his hearing, most of his possessions are confiscated, and he is moved from his luxurious suite on the third floor to a single room on the sixth floor. The sentence is handed down by a Bolshevik tribunal because the Count allegedly wrote a poem in 1913 with revolutionary undertones. On June 21, 1922, Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov is sentenced to a life of house arrest in Moscow’s Metropol Hotel. 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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