Eugenio Gomez-acebo asked Amor Towles:

Mr. Towles, I enjoyed very much "A gentleman in Moscow". Is your Count Alexander Rostov inspired by Count Léon d'Algout, the wonderful character that seduces Ninotchka in the great Lubitch movie? As the film, your shares a funny and tragic description of the Comunist regime and its victims.

Amor Towles Thanks for the kind words. But no, Rostov has no connection to Ninotchka.

No question just a comment. Gentleman... could have been another couple of hundred pages longer. Sad to part with it. This needs a question mark?

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