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Alan PhilpsExploring fact and fiction in the portrayal of the Metropol Hotel in ‘A Gentleman in Moscow‘ – in print and on TV – by the author of ‘The Red Hotel’ which tells the stories of Brits and Americans who lived there in wartime.
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The dissidents who outwitted the KGB
My last post, Beware Room 480, described how the KGB invited Soviet dissidents to the Metropol Hotel in Moscow where, surrounded by faded luxury, they were tricked into revealing their foreign contacts. Today’s post looks at one of the secr...
Beware Room 480
Since its opening in 1905 the Metropol Hotel has played many roles in Russian history – first as a setting for the super-rich to flaunt their wealth in the final days of Tsardom, then, after the 1917 Revolution, as a malodorous doss house f...
Mystery of the Disappearing Fountain
The Shalyapin bar at the Metropol Hotel is the most famous bar in Moscow. In the 1920s and 1930s, it was the haunt of the notoriously pro-Stalin New York Times journalist, Walter Duranty. Duranty held court there, leaning on a stick to take...
Leaving Russia
In 1985 a KGB double agent working for MI6 was smuggled out of Russia in the boot of a British diplomat’s car, his presence masked from the sniffer dogs by dirty nappies. I recalled the successful ‘exfiltration’ of Oleg Gordievsky when I wa...
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Journalist and author writing about Moscow, the Metropol Hotel, and Amor Towles's novel, A Gentleman in Moscow which is set in the Metropol. Author of The Red Hotel: The Untold Story of Stalin's Wartime Propaganda War
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