Following in the footsteps of: "Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson," a film walk through Latvia, Estonia, Abkhazia, and St. Petersburg

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The first episode of the Soviet film about the adventures of the great detective and his faithful companion was released in 1979. Naturally, filming in London was out of the question. Therefore, London was portrayed by Riga, Tallinn, and Petersburg. The role of the Reichenbach Falls was "played" by the Gegsky (Circassian) waterfall in Abkhazia. Riga’s Jauniela Street and house number 22 on it stood in for Baker Street and 221B. (This same street was also used in the TV film *Seventeen Moments of Spring* as "Flower Street" in the city of Bern.) The county of Devonshire, where the events of the novel *The Hound of the Baskervilles* take place, was replaced by Estonian landscapes, and the manors of the Estonian barons stood in for Baskerville Hall and Merripit House.

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