19 17 The October Revolution established the world's first socialist state power.
19 18 civil war, red terror, killing civilians, taking hostages, and collective expulsion.
1918-1921year, the wartime food crisis turned into famine in the following spring. Peasant riots.
1924, ending the Lenin era and opening the Stalin era.
1927, agricultural collectivization, using criminal law to purchase grain.
1939, World War II.
1953, Khrushchev era began.
Mr. Mercer's The Gentleman in Moscow tells the story of a gentleman who has been under house arrest for 32 years in the Metropolitan Hotel. In this process, the gentleman met all kinds of people and experienced many strange twists and turns, some of which were integrated into his life and became his life, which was even better than his life. From these stories, we can see not only the personality charm of gentlemen, but also Russia in those years.
Nina, a 9-year-old girl, is the count's first friend. Nina is smart and has a personality. Like other little girls, she has a princess dream in her heart, but she can empathize and love to explore. Her appearance undoubtedly helped the count break the bondage and loneliness of being under house arrest in one place. Nina showed many secrets to the count with her master key, and got a lot of hard-to-find fun. Nina believes that when someone gives you something, you only need to say "thank you" when you really need it. On the contrary, you don't have to thank. It is such a girl who is rude to us ordinary people, but she has a set of rules herself. When she left the Metropolitan Hotel and received the earl's gift, she thanked her solemnly. Similarly, she gave the count the most precious master key. It is enough to see the heaviness of this turn of the year in the hearts of young and old. It also paved the way for Nina to entrust her daughter to the count in the future.
Mishka did not belong to the friend the count met in metropolis. They know each other's past. With the changes of the times, Mishka, who is only silent about books and nobody pays attention to it, has found his own stage. He and the count are completely left-handed, but they are complementary at all times. There is always a person, talking and listening carefully. No matter what happens in the outside world, old friends always know each other in their hearts. Everything is good news, that's all. They know each other best and trust each other most, so we have to meet each other even in do or die. Even if death only separates the temperature of the body, spiritual reunion will not be absent.
The appearance of actress Anna startled the count. But the count is an experienced old gentleman after all. Taking off clothes and picking up clothes, telling stories and lies, one after another, in this emotional game, Anna no longer felt inferior, and had a great change, and the count also gained a good comrade-in-arms and partner. Everyone will leave slowly, only Anna is the permanent guest of the count in his later years.
Andre and Emile are the count's most reliable friends in metropolis. A manager and a chef are powerful people with magical powers in this hotel. The "Big Three" are together, helping each other and achieving each other. Plan big things together and play childish games together. If it is because friendship is always easy to establish when you are young, then for the middleman, you can still get a golden friendship, or two, which is really lucky.
There are many people who bring warmth and love to the count in the Metropolitan Hotel. They are always like mother's tailors, considerate bartenders, and even foreign friends and leaders with completely different "classes". They painted the earl's life under house arrest in various colors and always helped him at critical moments.
Here, the most important gift and person for the count is Sophia, which Nina entrusted to the count's daughter. If those people are very important people in the count's life, then Sophia is the count's life. He is her uncle, friend, teacher, guardian, patron and father. In the process of Sophia's growth, the Earl realized the anxiety, uneasiness, worry, helplessness, disappointment and sadness as a father ... In the past 30 years, the Earl has only shed tears twice, once an old friend died and once Sophia was injured and hospitalized. He is full of regret. For her sake, he can rush out of house arrest without scruple. He can forget the gentleman in his bones and sacrifice himself to protect her.
At the beginning of the story, what attracted me was the advantages of the author, Count Su Yan. He seems to know everything, rich experience, the world he has seen and familiar skills. I was really curious about these incredible things of the count with the mentality of reading novels. However, slowly, I found that the author rarely used pen and ink to "flatter" the count, and what attracted me more at this time was already the inextricable relationship between the characters. As a reader, I am a bystander and enjoy other people's lives through words; But in the process of reading, because their emotions are so real and appropriate, sometimes they feel like participants.
The author of this book is an American, but he skillfully and accurately integrates the ever-changing history of Moscow into his works, and the whole story becomes vivid because of Thaksin's squeezed Russian flavor.
Personally, just like "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Naples Tetralogy", I think the page number is particularly thick, the name is particularly long, and there are so many people that it is difficult to read. But after the beginning, I'm glad I met another unforgettable story this year.