“In Lithuania, the old town of Vilnius was shut for two days while the crew transformed the high street into 19th-century Moscow. Many of the battle scenes took place on farmland outside Vilnius, while the open-air museum at Rumsiskes, near the city of Kaunas, was the location for scenes depicting the officers’ quarters during the campaign,” wrote The Financial Times in a travel feature set around the film.
The FT said that tour companies are already offering week-long “War and Peace” tours of Lithuania and Latvia to visit some of the locations where the filming of the epic drama took place.
The Lithuanian Ministry of tourism has said it will target film tourism in 2016 as a result of the release of War and Peace the new BBC drama series in January.
The six-part television series based on Leo Tolstoy‘s novel War and Peace filmed in Vilnius and other parts of Lithuania is currently being aired in the UK and will open in the United States in February.