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"Pustitʹ krasnogo petukha i poĭmatʹ zolotui͡u rybku - lishʹ malai͡a tolika togo, chto dolzhen sovershitʹ za denʹ oprichnik, nadezhda i opora gosudarstva rossiĭskogo. Slovo i Delo - ego deviz, vernostʹ nachalʹstvu - ego print͡sip, dvoemyslie - ego moralʹ, nasilie - ego instrument... Oprichnik otlichno sebi͡a chuvstvuet v sorokinskoĭ Moskve nedalekogo budushchego - potomu chto on nezamenim"--
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Tri krest'yanskikh syna, tri baryshni-dvoryanki - i starinnaya podmoskovnaya usad'ba, v kotoroy na protyazhenii vsego KHKH veka razvorachivayutsya sobytiya ikh zhizni. Usad'ba Angelovo - ne fon dlya deystviya, a "tsentr sily" dvukh bol'shikh semey, s ney svyazany dlya Kondrat'yevykh i Angelovykh lyubov', utraty, izmeny, samootverzhennost', tvorchestvo, schast'ye. I vse, chto proiskhodit s glavnymi geroyami, a potom s ikh det'mi i vnukami, oveyano...
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In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances...
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