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Amor Towles: A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel (Paperback, 2019, Penguin Books) 4 stars

When, in 1922, thirty-year-old Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik …

”... the existence of our wine list runs counter to the ideals of the Revolution. That it is a monument to the privilege of the nobility, the effeteness of the intelligentsia, and the predatory pricing of speculators... A meeting was held, a vote was taken, an order was handed down... Henceforth, the Boyarsky shall sell only red and white wine with every bottle at a single price."