Count Rostov was first introduced to audiences in Amor Towles’ 2016 boffo bestseller A Gentleman in Moscow. Now, it’s been ...

Millions of people have read Amor Towles’s globally successful 2016 novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, and so debate has raged about who should play his impressively moustachioed protagonist, Count Rostov.

In 1922 Count Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal. He is sentenced to house arrest in The Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov ...

Almost unrecognisable with a massive moustache and a fright of curly hair, he fronts new Paramount Plus series A Gentleman in Moscow as Count Alexander Rostov. We join the glossy period ...