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the Count’s grandmother, who raises Helena and the Count after their parents pass away. When the Russian nobility is dissolved, the Count returns to his family estate from Paris in order to ensure her safe passage out of the country. The Count describes her as independent, authoritative, and impatient with pettiness.
The Countess Quotes in A Gentleman in Moscow
The A Gentleman in Moscow quotes below are all either spoken by The Countess or refer to The Countess. 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 Quotes
From the earliest age, we must learn to say good-bye to friends and family. […] But experience is less likely to teach us how to bid our dearest possessions adieu. And if it were to? We wouldn't welcome the education. For eventually, we come to hold our dearest possessions more closely than we hold our friends.
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After the Count has been sentenced to life imprisonment in the Metropol, he returns to the hotel to find that he will also be moving from his luxurious multi-room suite on the third floor to a one-hundred-square-foot room on the sixth. As such, the Count is forced to relinquish most of the possessions he has. In this passage, the narrator describes from the Count’s point of view the difficulty of giving up one’s possessions. On a first read, the inclusion of this quote appears to be a critique of the upper class and the Count, who seems to value objects Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dict
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The Countess Character Timeline in A Gentleman in Moscow
The timeline below shows where the character The Countess appears in A Gentleman in Moscow. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Book 1, 1922, An Ambassador
The Count points at what he wants to keep: two chairs, his grandmother’s coffee table, a set of her plates, two table lamps made from ebony elephants, a...
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...the former Tsar had been executed by Bolshevik troops, the Count had feared for his grandmother’s life and returned to the family estate from Paris. He arranged passage for her out...
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The Count and his grandmother (who had raised him since he was ten) parted without shedding a tear. They tried...
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After his grandmother left, the Count had loaded up a single wagon with their furniture, bolted the doors...
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The Count unpacks a few more things, including his father’s twice-tolling clock and his grandmother’s opera glasses. At that moment, a pigeon taps and scratches at the single small window...
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Book 1, An Assembly
...the modern world. He thinks about the objects that have outlived their usefulness, like his grandmother’s opera glasses. As the Count ponders modernity, he takes one more look at the wall...
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Book 1, Archaeologies
...back to the summers when he would go to visit the Count’s family estate. The Countess enjoyed Mishka’s and the Count’s discourse questioning the standing of the church or the ruling...
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...the Count toast not only to the Grand Duke but also to Helena and the Countess, to Russia and the Rostov estate, to poetry and any other worthy thing they can...
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Book 1, Advent
...fortunate he feels to have become Nina’s friend. He gives her a Christmas present: his grandmother’s opera glasses. She is surprised by this gesture, and admits to him that he knows...
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Book 2, 1924, Anonymity
...been a master of seating tables since he was fifteen. He used to help his grandmother plan her dinner arrangements, where considerations of various family feuds and eccentricities were essential. The...
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Book 2, 1926, Adieu
...concludes his story: after he injured the officer, he was sent to Paris by his grandmother as punishment. But while he was in Paris—exactly ten years ago—Helena had died of scarlet...
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