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What to do and see in Old Arbat, Central Russia: The Best Monuments & Statues
The political, scientific, historical, architectural and business center of Russia, Moscow displays the country's contrasts at their most extreme. The ancient and modern are juxtaposed side by side in this city of 10 million. Catch a metro from one of the ornate stations to see Red Square, the Kremlin, the nine domes of St. Basil's Cathedral, Lenin's Mausoleum, the KGB Museum and other symbols of Moscow's great and terrible past, then lighten up and shop Boulevard Ring or people watch in Pushkin Square.
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1. Monument to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
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4.0 based on 39 reviews
Reviewed By MuscoviteVT - Moscow, Russia
Russians positively love the good old Victorian England, with its porridge in the morning, tea and milk in the afternoon and stiff upper lip at all times! If you come around New Year holidays, you will catch this legendary 1980s series on one of the central TV channels, if not several at once, with their ratings flying up! I guess you can find them on the net, too – type Livanov as Sherlock (he is still alive, in his 80s and a MBE since 2006) and Solomin as Watson, who died fairly young, just hardly 60 y.o. The two bronze statues appeared in the park at the British Embassy in 2007 – it was 120 years of ‘A Study in Scarlet’. The sculptor must have been very considerate about selfie-lovers, as he had put a bench nearby :) You won’t see many tourists around, though – with tall trees and bushes it’s no easy task to come upon this attraction by chance. For me, however, it wasn’t difficult: First locate the British Embassy on your map or gadget, whatever. The address is Smolenskaya naberezhnaya (embankment), 10. Go there from Smolenskaya or Kievskaya metro stations along Protochny pereulok (lane), that’s closest (and it has a posh restaurant), or from the huge Novy Arbat avenue. The statues are between the little park and the gigantic Embassy building.
2. Monument to Bulat Okudzhava
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4.0 based on 74 reviews
Reviewed By drogilmour - Guatemala City, Guatemala
Bulat Shálvovich Okudzhava, this Georgian was a master on his own field and one of the founders of the Soviet genre "author song". You can listen to his songs on YouTube, his are a mixture of Russian poetic and folksong traditions and the French chansonnier style, a genre quite different from the nationalist one in the mainstream back then. The sculpture is quite lovely in the sense that includes several elements besides his figure, these include a bronze pic-nis style bench. Too bad his guitar was not included in the concept of the installation, perhaps it was left out because he only employed a few chords and had no formal training in music, but possessed an exceptional melodic voice.
