A Gentleman in Moscow book

A Gentleman in Moscow is a critically acclaimed historical fiction novel written by American author Amor Towles, first published in 2016. The book follows the story of Count Alexander Rostov, who is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol Hotel in Moscow by a Bolshevik tribunal. The edition shown features the iconic Penguin Books logo, a brand steeped in literary history. Penguin Books was originally founded in the United Kingdom in 1935 by Allen Lane with the goal of providing high-quality, affordable paperback books to the general public.

Over the decades, Penguin underwent various corporate transitions, most notably merging with the American publisher Random House in 2013 to form Penguin Random House. Today, the brand is part of a global publishing powerhouse that is ultimately owned by the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. While the brand originated in the UK and its corporate parent is German, the physical manufacturing of the books occurs in various regional printing facilities globally to support local distribution networks.