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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