A 15-foot-tall statue of the head of the Sopranos family greets passengers at a train station in southeastern Lithuania. https://t.co/vR4kYSGoJL
— Atlas Obscura (@atlasobscura) July 31, 2023
In a famous scene in The Sopranos, Tony Soprano, wearing slippers, boxer shorts, an undershirt, and a bathrobe, waddles out of his home to pick up the morning newspaper left in front of his house.
Now the people of Vilnius, Lithuania can reflect on the majesty of this moment whenever they take a train. This is the right and proper order of things.
Why does this monumental sculpture of Tony Soprano grace this particular train station? Atlas Obscura explains that Lithuanian artist Donatas Jankauskas made it in 2009 for a show appropriately called "Unexpected Places." Jankauskas is noted for his playful use of pop culture figures. After traveling extensively, the 15-foot tall statue found its final home at a train station in the city where Jankauskas first conceived of the premise.