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

Title Sequence, Opening Credits & Scenes

St Basil's Cathedral / Red Square

Moscow, Russia

Opening shot of clouds in the sky panning downwards over St Basil's Cathedral.

"Yekaterina Orlova, Katya........ Never screwed one, never flirted with one, never even married one, who is she - the usual fat arsed frump?"

Katya (Michelle  Pfeiffer) walking across Red Square towards Revolution Square (now Manezh Square).  Kermlin Walls and Lenin Mausoleum in background.

Red Square / Manezh Square 

Moscow, Russia

Katya walking down the side of the Historical Museum on Red Square towards Manezh Square (from under her umbrella can be seen  vast expanse of tarmac with traffic  passing in both directions (either side of the Hotel Moskva).  Katya is heading for the Hotel National at the opposite end of the square.

Notes:

This square was called 60th anniversary of the Revolution Square at the time of filming.   It has since been pedestrianised and now has a underground shopping Mall, topped, above ground, with fountains, sculptures and landscaping (Designs by Tsereteli - appointed by the former Mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, favourite sculptor, Tsereteli.  

Hotel National, Mokhovaya Street

Moscow, Russia

Outside the main entrance of the Hotel National,  on the corner of Mokhovaya Street (formerly Prospekt Marksa) and Tverskaya (formerly Gorky Street).

Then inside the foyer and up the stairs to the audio-book fair being held in the hotel.  Katya hands over the notebooks to Nikki Landau - "short-arsed polish cockney sales rep"

Notes:

I presume the interior shots of the hotel foyer were taken in this hotel - I have not been there and have not been able to find old pictures of the hotel interior to correspond with this scene.  The book fair scenes  - set in the National hotel were actually filmed in St Ermin's Hotel in London

Hotel National - Audio Fair

Katya takes manuscript to the British Council's audio fair in Moscow

Location:

Hotel National

Mosocw

Russia

(Filmed at St Ermin's Hotel, London, UK)

Details:

Katya takes Danté's manuscript to pass to Barley Blair of London publishers Abercrombie & Blair.  Unfortunately, Barley never showed up, the A&B stand is empty.  Katya convinces Niki Landau of Penguin books(?) to take the notebooks to Barley Blair.

Notes:

This scene was filmed in St Ermin's Hotel in London:  http://www.sterminshotel.co.uk/.  I was in London in October 2013 - and I could have bagged this location if I had known about it - I was so close to the hotel at one point when I had lunch in a pub opposite St James's Park underground station.  Perhaps next time, i'll make a special journey ... just to stay in this hotel.

Acknowledgement:
I must give credit here to James Luckard who has very kindly provided me with information on some of the Russia House locations.  He gave me details of this scene - shot in St Ermin's hotel (which I had presumed was filmed in the National Hotel Moscow), as well as other scenes towards the end of the film: the book fair party location (The Reading & Writing Room, One Whitehall Place, London), and Katya's apartment block (Ulitsa Verkhnyaya Maslovka 23, Moscow - behind the Petrovsky Palace on Leningradskoye Shosse).

I finally "bagged" this location in October 2015:  http://blog.therussiahouse.net/2015/10/the-russia-house-another-location.html

Interrogation Scenes and Flashbacks

Interrogation Scene

Location:

Palacio dos Condes Do Vimosio,  Rua Ivens

Lisbon,

Portugal

Details:
Barley Scott Blair interviewed for the first time by British Intelligence in a room overlooking the

Baixo Chiado in Lisbon.  

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Nikki Landau's Hotel room (Flashback)

Location:

Hotel room

Moscow

Russia

Details:

Nikki Landau closes curtains in his Moscow hotel room

Notes:

I can’t identify this location.  I’m sure it would have been filmed in a Moscow Hotel, so I would guess that it might have been the Rossiya, National or Ukraine hotel since other scenes in the film were shot at these locations.

Briefing the Minister (Flashback)

Location:

UK Government Foreign Office

King Charles Street

Whitehall

London

UK

Details:

Outside shot of the building, setting the scene, is at this location, but I don't know if the interior shot was filmed there.   Ned & Clive of British Intelligence, along with military and psychology advisers discuss the notebooks with the (Foreign?) Minister.

Notes:

The building overlooks St James’s Park near the Churchill War Rooms.  I bagged this location in October 2013.

MI6 Search Barley’s Flat (Interrogation Scene flashbacks)

MI6 Search Barley’s Flat	Location: London UK
Details: MI6 searching for clues to Barley's whereabouts Not sure where this location is.	“EUREKA! A Lisbon bank account my dears . . we’ve got him”

Barley apprehended in Lisbon (Interrogation flashbacks)

Location: Rua Tabac Lisbon Portugal

Details: Barley drinking and playing chess with a friend ( named “Gravy” in the book) in a small bar before being summoned to the British Embassy by Merridew Notes: I was in Lisbon a few years ago and tried, without success, to find the location of this scene - although I did come close.  It was obviously in the vicinity of Santa Egracia – the National Pantheon as this can be seen in the distance when the camera pans round to face Merridew. I originally identified the exact location by using the birds eye view on Multimap (now part of Bing maps), and subsequently confirmed it using Google Streetview once that became available.  It does appear as though the bar was no longer there when the street view shots were taken.  By coincidence, opposite the café-bar there is what appears to be a Russian Orthodox church.

Barley taken to a Lisbon safe house (Interrogation flashback)

“Loosen your girdle Merridew, have a drink with the unwashed”
Barley taken to a Lisbon safe house to be interrogated by British Intelligence	Location: Palacio dos Condes Do Vimosio,  Rua Ivens Lisbon Portugal
Details: Barley taken by car to the interrogation - car pulls up outside Palacio Dos Condes Vimosio on Rua Ivens. “Hello, my name’s Ned, and I’m about to move the goal posts” Ned greets barley in the foyer of this building.  A bas-relief logo on the wall can be seen which matches the same pattern of a plaque on the outside of the building next to the entrance. “So, where are we all off to? Nicuragua, Chile, Iran, or are just assassinating a local nuisance?” Barley enters the room where the interrogation takes place – he meets Clive, Ned, Walter and Bob (CIA).  The room where the interrogation scene takes place is clearly in this building;  the view from the room, which can be seen as barley fills a glass of whiskey,  looks down on the Baixo Chiado near the Praco de Commercial. Notes: Again this was another location which i did not properly identify until after I returned from Lisbon, but I had took a photo of the building looking up from the Baixo Chiado area.	“Hello, my name’s Ned, and I’m about to move the goal posts” “So, where are we all off to? Nicuragua, Chile, Iran, or are just assassinating a local