THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

When: 1929 What: Book Where: USSR

It might surprise you to learn that Sherlock Holmes is massively popular in Russia, with a statue to him erected in Moscow in 2007. However, this collection was banned in 1929 for its references to occultism. The highly prescribed limitations on topics by the Soviet government at the time forbade such superstitiously driven material, even in fiction.