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A Gentleman in Moscow, the bestselling novel by Amor Towles is the inspiration for a new Showtime series about the fictional Russian aristocrat Count Alexander Rostov, placed on indefinite house arrest in an attic hotel room after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Here's what we know about the show and what fans can read next.