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The Bishop
The maître d’ of the hotel’s fine restaurant, the Boyarsky. The Count explains that the Boyarsky would not run without Andrey, who appears to anticipate the needs of every guest, much to the Count’s delight. Prior to this job, Andrey had been a juggler in the circus, a skill that aids him as he appears to pull out chairs for every member of a table at once, or catches a cake midair as it falls. Together Andrey, the Count (who becomes headwaiter at the Boyarsky), and the Boyarksy’s chef, Emile, become such good friends that they are referred to as “the Triumvirate.” They work to outmaneuver the Bishop when he tries to impose new rules and regulations on the Boyarsky.
Andrey Duras Quotes in A Gentleman in Moscow
The A Gentleman in Moscow quotes below are all either spoken by Andrey Duras or refer to Andrey Duras. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Book 1, 1922, An Ambassador
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In the seventeen years since the making of that peace—hardly a generation—Russia had suffered a world war, a civil war, two famines, and the so-called Red Terror. In short, it had been through an era of upheaval that had spared none. Whether one’s leanings were left or right, Red or White, whether one’s personal circumstances had changed for the better or changed for the worse, surely at long last it was time to drink to the health of the nation.
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Book 2, 1924, Anonymity
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Yes, a bottle of wine was the ultimate distillation of time and place; a poetic expression of individuality itself. Yet here it was, cast back into the sea of anonymity, that realm of averages and unknowns.
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Book 3, Arachne’s Art
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With the slightest turn of the wrist the shards of glass tumble into a new arrangement. The blue cap of the bellhop is handed from one boy to the next, a dress as yellow as a canary is stowed in a trunk, a little red guidebook is updated with the new names of streets, and through Emile’s swinging door walks Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov—with the white dinner jacket of the Boyarsky draped across his arm.
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Andrey Duras Quotes in A Gentleman in Moscow
The A Gentleman in Moscow quotes below are all either spoken by Andrey Duras or refer to Andrey Duras. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Book 1, 1922, An Ambassador
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In the seventeen years since the making of that peace—hardly a generation—Russia had suffered a world war, a civil war, two famines, and the so-called Red Terror. In short, it had been through an era of upheaval that had spared none. Whether one’s leanings were left or right, Red or White, whether one’s personal circumstances had changed for the better or changed for the worse, surely at long last it was time to drink to the health of the nation.
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Book 2, 1924, Anonymity
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Yes, a bottle of wine was the ultimate distillation of time and place; a poetic expression of individuality itself. Yet here it was, cast back into the sea of anonymity, that realm of averages and unknowns.
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Book 3, Arachne’s Art
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With the slightest turn of the wrist the shards of glass tumble into a new arrangement. The blue cap of the bellhop is handed from one boy to the next, a dress as yellow as a canary is stowed in a trunk, a little red guidebook is updated with the new names of streets, and through Emile’s swinging door walks Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov—with the white dinner jacket of the Boyarsky draped across his arm.
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