10 Monuments & Statues in Arbat That You Shouldn't Miss

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.