Alan’s Substack
by Alan Philpsin 📚 Literature
Alan’s Substack
About the Substack
Exploring 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.
About Alan Philps
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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