Cynthia Shannon
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Amor Towles:
It seems that the impact of Russia's involvement in WWII is somewhat missing from the narrative in A Gentleman in Moscow, and news about the world at large in general just doesn't seem to impact the life at the Metropol much. Why did you choose to drive the narrative this way?
Amor Towles
Cynthia,
If I had driven the narrative in another direction, it would have been a different book!
:-)
If I had driven the narrative in another direction, it would have been a different book!
:-)
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Felix Sirovski
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Amor Towles:
Dear Sir, I'm afraid some of the realities you describe in your book Gentleman in Moscow didn't exist. There were no officers ranks in the Red Army in 1918, also NKVD didn't exist at this time. There were CheKa (Extraordinary Commission) and GPU (Chief Political Directorate) later on. Vyshinski in 1918 was a nobody. And I doubt that CheKa members would adress anyone as a "count". Would you care to comment?
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