The Gist: One of those members of the Tsarist aristocracy is Count Alexander Rostov ... He chooses a desk and a painting of the woman he returned to Moscow for. Rostov tries to make the most ...
In 1922 Count Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal. He is sentenced to house arrest in The Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov ...