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Given that the Count was ‘Russian to his core’ and had returned home to his roots in the first place he wouldn’t leave his homeland. At first I was disappointed that the Count did not escape to be with Sofia but the more I thought about it the ending made perfect sense. I loved the quirky characters with all their wit and charm. The bees and their special honey and the hidden gold in the bureau etc. I loved this novel so much, with its little touches of magic. He is an old man, and he and Anna will simply concoct some semi-plausible cover story under which he will live out his days, but not cooped up in a tiny room. His friend, the KGB man, has simply ordered the 'rounding up of the usual suspects,' and the unimaginative, one-dimensional thinker, 'the Bishop,' thinks Count Rostov has fled to Finland and beyond.

As an added bonus, the man who fled back to-not from-Russia and was saved from suicide by honey and the thoughts of the fruit trees near his home got to experience them with his beloved Anna.

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He needed to set her free from being tethered to him. He loved her so much that he wanted, like her mother Nina before her, for Sofia to be free to follow her own course in the world. But he also felt terrible guilt at encouraging her to wish to be 'caged up' like him. There can be no doubt the count deeply loved Sofia as his daughter. Rick does not get on the plane with Ilsa, he stays behind and 'fights the good fight,' even though that choice was personally, tremendously difficult for him. I just don't see Anna as someone leading a quiet and unassuming village life.Ĭasablanca was an excellent choice as a method of foreshadowing. Now this could just be what prompted him to send Sophia to America, but the fact that Anna wants to go there and that he meets her at the end could also be foreshadowing where they're going after that. “You sound as if you dreamed of living in America.” “Sasha, I know you don’t want to accept the notion that Russia may be inherently inward looking, but do you think in America they are even having this conversation? Wondering if the gates of New York are about to be opened or closed? He may be settling in some remote village, Russia is enormous, they would never find him, and it's been 50 years since they got rid of aristocracy, I don't think it's at the top of Party's list of important things to do any more.īut one thing that hints he may be leaving Russia is his conversation with Anna: As we saw, Osip has no intention of actually going after Count.Ĭount did reunite with Anna in his birthplace but his house had been burned down and we saw he is quite capable of letting go. Count tricked his pursuers into thinking he went to Finland, and even before that he tested what Osip would do by showing him Casablanca. I am hoping I missed something or got the wrong impression.

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I find it incredibly implausible that a man so full of the joy of living free would squander his one and only chance to get out of a nationwide prison, especially if it meant reuniting with his beloved 'daughter.' In staying, it would have only been a matter of time before he'd have been rounded up and put right back in his cage. All Along it had been irritating to me that he never even tried to escape but, at the revelation of Viktor Stepanovich's role in the final plot I kind of flipped. Had Rostov never planned to leave Russia, just the Metropol?Īs I reached those final pages I had an awful sense of foreboding that Rostov would chicken out. Was Rostov just swinging by his childhood town to see his old home and pick up his gf before finally leaving the country to reunite with his 'daughter'? Or. I am confused about the ending and need help figuring it out.