Art Muzeon Sculpture Park

The wonderful, moody Sculpture Park, behind and beside the New Tretyakov, is Moscow’s most atmospheric spot to indulge in some Soviet nostalgia. Formerly called the Park of the Fallen Heroes, it started as a collection of Soviet statues (Stalin, Dzerzhinsky, Sverdlov, a selection of Lenins and Brezhnevs) put out to pasture after they were ripped from their pedestals in the post-1991 wave of anti-Soviet feeling. These discredited icons have now been joined by contemporary work, ranging from the playful to the provocative. Tsereteli’s Peter the Great surveys the scene from his post on the embankment of the Moscow River.