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A Gentleman in Moscow, a new Paramount+ adaptation of the 2016 international bestselling novel by Amor Towles, follows the escapades of a disgraced aristocrat confined to the Hotel Metropol across the turbulent decades that followed the Russian Revolution. But Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov wasn’t the only illustrious guest to have checked in…

19 times you couldn't make it up about London.

Alan Philps’s book explores the fascinating Hotel Metropol, set up by Stalin to ensnare unwitting hacks – until some occupants rebelled