Hötorget 13-15, 111 57 Stockholm, Sweden
In April 1917 shortly before returning to Russia to start the revolution Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin visited Stockholm. Swedish communist comrades took their friend to the department store PUB, where they bought him a new suit so that he would look good when he returned to Russia. Allegedly, this is also where and when Lenin got his famous cap, the one he is wearing in millions of famous pictures, photographs and monuments.
The department store PUB no longer exists. The two buildings which housed PUB were converted into hotels, a cafe and a restaurant.
Bonus facts:
The name PUB has nothing to do with a pub. It comes from the initials of Paul Urbanus Bergström, the founder of the store.
The famous actress Greta Garbo worked as a clerk at PUB in 1920 - 1922.
In December 2009 PUB became the center of the political hot potato Noko Jeans who sold the first North Korean jeans at the department store but was pulled by PUB after a political controversy regarding the working conditions.
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