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I could not finish this book. It's pretentious, boring, and full of not just errors, but total impossibilities. There were no noblemen openly living in Bolshevik Moscow in 1922, and certainly not in the Metropol Hotel. They had all been either lined up against the wall or hiding their origins. Many names are ridiculous ("Federova"? Really?). Fontanka is not a canal. One particularly stupid sentence refers to June 21 as "the last days of spring." In Russia spring is counted from March 1 to May 31. Summer solstice as the "last day of spring" is an American nomenclature. And so on, and so forth. Don't waste your time!