Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest by a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922 after being deemed an unrepentant aristocrat. Sentenced to live in the Metropol hotel across the street from the Kremlin, where he must now reside in an attic room while witnessing some of Russia's tumultuous history unfold outside. Despite his life-long aversion to work, his reduced circumstances offer him a unique opportunity for emotional discovery.
In the next episode, Count Alexander Rostov, once a noble, faces a new realit...