April’s Reviews > A Gentleman in Moscow > Status Update

“For all the varied concerns attendant to the raising of a child—over schoolwork, dress, and manners—in the end a parent’s responsibility cannot be more simple: To bring a child safely into adulthood so that she could have a chance to experience a life of purpose, and, God willing, contentment.”

Of course, it’s not so simple. Such understandable parent guilt here.

“Who would have imagined when you were sentenced to life in the Metropol all those years ago, that you had just become the luckiest man in all of Russia.”