Location List

This is the list I have compiled of the locations used in the film.  Please let me know if there are any errors or omissions you have spotted, or if you can fill in any of the blanks.    In the posts below this list, I describe in more detail each scene and the location used.  

I have found it hard to identify or verify the location of some of the interior shots used in the film.  Some have been shot on location, but I suspect that a number of the scenes might have been filmed at Pinewood Studios (CIA headquarters, SIS headquarters & "The Russia House", Bookfair party for example).  Again, if you have any information on the locations used, please let me know.

Moscow, St Basils cathedral, Red Square

Moscow, Red Square

Moscow, Manezh Square

Moscow,Hotel National, Mokhovaya Street (Book Fare filmed in St Ermin's hotel, London)

Lisbon, Palacio dos Condes Do Vimosio,  Rua Ivens

Moscow, Hotel Room

London, Foreign Office, King Charles Street, Whitehall

London, Barley's flat

Lisbon, Bar, Rua Tabac

Moscow region, Peredelkino (3 Ulitsa Pavlenko?)

Moscow region, Peredelkino, Pasternak's grave 

Lisbon, Largo Das Portas Do Sol

Lisbon, 88 Rua Das Escolas Gerias, Barleys Flat

Moscow, Progress Publishers, Zubovsky Boulevard,Garden Ring

London, Training and Safehouse - Symons Street, Knightbridge

Moscow, Hotel Ukraine

Moscow, Hotel Ukraine (outside)

Moscow, Red Square

Moscow, GUM

Moscow, Hotel National Restaurant

Moscow, Gorky Street (Tverskaya)

Moscow, Gorky Street, nr Sovietski Square

Moscow, Hospital ?

Moscow, inside Kievskaya metro station

Sergiev Posad, monastry
St Petersburg, cinema / restaurant - closed showing of Bout De Souffle (Katya's memories).
St Petersburg, apartment opposite Peter & Paul fortress (Petropavlovskaya Krepost)- Katya & Dante (Katya's memories).

Train to Leningrad, purportedly the night train to Leningrad, but looks like Yunost train.

St Petersburg, River Neva, Meteor hydrofoil & Winter palace, various scenes from St Peterburg

St Petersburg, Pribaltiskaya Hotel

St Petersburg, Lion Bridge

St Petersburg, Dom Knigi, Nevsky Prospekt

St Petersburg, Summer gardens

St Petersburg, Marsovoye Polye

St Petersburg, Palace Square, Hermitage

St Petersburg, Peter & Paul fortress island

London, Heathrow airport

London, Jazz club?

London, Russia House?

Moscow, Katya's apartment?

Canada, Bowen Island, British Columbia

London, Lambeth Bridge, Albert Embankment

Moscow, Worker and Collective farm women statue outside VDNKh (All-Russia exhibition)

Moscow, boulevard near Lyubyanka Square (Kotelnichnaya Embankment skyscraper in background)

Moscow, embankment south of the Kremlin, then Garden ring road past Vostaniye Square - Stalin skyscraper

Moscow, Kolomenskoye monastry & estate

Moscow, Katya's apartment, ulitsa Verkhnyaya Maslovka, Building 23 (behind Pretroff Palace)

Moscow, outside 1905 Metro station 

Moscow, hospital?

Moscow, Potomac-Blair party: The Reading & Writing Room, 1 Whitehall Place, London

Moscow, Barley and Katya on balcony in Hotel Rossiya

Moscow, Novospasskaya Proezd (Novospasskaya Monastry in background)

Moscow, apartment block on intersection of Novospasskaya Proezd and Krutitsky Pereulok

Moscow cemetery, Vagankovskaya cemetery? 

Lisbon, Barley Flat, Rua Das Escolas Gerias

Lisbon, docks

The Night Train to Leningrad

Barley & Wicklow Travel to St Petersburg	Location: Train Journey from Moscow to St Petersburg on “Yunost”
Details: Barley and Wicklow take the night train to Leningrad (now St Petersburg, of course) to meet ostensibly to meet the new American publishing partner of Abercrombie & Blair (Barley’s publishing house) – Jack Henzigger of Potomac Books.  This is the cover for the real reason for the trip: Katya has arranged for Barley to meet Dante in one of three possible locations in St Petersburg.   The scene opens with Barley and Wicklow on the train, looking out the window on to the Russian countryside.  Various scenes of countryside, settlements and dachas are shown passing by; then, to show we have arrived at St Petersburg, we are shown a tourist hydrofoil crossing the Neva towards the Winter Palace.   We are then shown various street scenes from St Peterburg: The Hermitage museum (the building propped up by columns of sculptured male figures, bearing the weight of the building on their shoulders), St Isaacs cathedral, Nevsky Prospekt passing by Kazansky cathedral, boulevards with images of heroic workers displayed on bill boards, apartment blocks,  Cathedral of Christ the Saviour on the Spilt Blood, Palace of Soviets on Moskovskaya square  and finally arriving at the Pribaltiskaya Hotel.
Notes: The night train between Moscow and Leningrad used to be the Red Arrow, Krasnaya Strela, sleeper, whereas Barley and Wicklow appear to be on the day time train “Yunost” or Youth.

Barley and Dante in St Petersburg discuss publishing his notebooks

Palace Square / Vasilievsky Island

St Petersburg

Russia

Barley and Dante are seen walking along an alley from Nevsky Prospekt.  The alley leads to an arch which opens on to the palace square - a vast arch of a square bordered by neoclassical buildings and the baroque Winter Palace and Hermitage.  I've walked this way to Palace Square a couple of times and it is a pleasure.  A short walk down an anonymous side street, just when you think you are lost or are heading in the wrong direction, you round the curve of the street and an amazing vista gradually unfurls before your eyes, to be framed by a triumphal archway.  Through the arch and a vast square is presented. A beautiful sight!  No less striking on second viewing.

Barley and Dante walk across the square pass the Alexander Column where a group of Russians (in a tour group) are having a group photo taken.  Alexander Column (1830–34), designed by Auguste de Montferrand. This red granite column (the tallest column of a single piece of stone in the world) is 47.5 metres high and weighs some 500 tons. It is set so well that no attachment to the base is needed.

The action then moves on to the embankment of Vasilievsky Island on the River Neva, next to Peter and Paul fortress.

"You are wearing grey today Barley, my father was murdered by men who wore grey uniforms, grey men ruined my beautiful profession and take care, or they will ruin you too"