Dapper Cat Rides the Moscow Metro to Honor the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare's Death

The well-dressed British Shorthair was in peak Shakespearean form.

ByABC News
October 13, 2016, 6:13 PM
A British Shorthair cat in a car of a train marking the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death put into service on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line of the Moscow Metro as part of the UK-Russia Year of Language and Literature and the "Poetry on the Metro" project, Oct. 12, 2016.
A British Shorthair cat in a car of a train marking the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death put into service on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line of the Moscow Metro as part of the UK-Russia Year of Language and Literature and the "Poetry on the Metro" project, Oct. 12, 2016.
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— -- A well-accessorized cat rode the subway in Moscow for an unusual Shakespeare celebration that took place inside the Russian capital's public transportation system.

The British Shorthair was invited on board a subway car as part of the Moscow Metro's celebration honoring the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death.

The cat was dressed in dapper fashion, modeled after the cat painted with the English writer in a famous portrait.

PHOTO: A British Shorthair cat in a car of a train marking the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death put into service on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line of the Moscow Metro, Oct. 12, 2016.
A British Shorthair cat in a car of a train marking the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death put into service on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line of the Moscow Metro as part of the UK-Russia Year of Language and Literature and the "Poetry on the Metro" project, Oct. 12, 2016.
TASS/Newscom

The subway ride the cat took, on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line, was part of the U.K.-Russia Year of Language and Literature program and Moscow's "Poetry on the Metro" project.

PHOTO: A British Shorthair cat in a car of a train marking the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death put into service on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line of the Moscow Metro, Oct. 12, 2016.
A British Shorthair cat in a car of a train marking the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death put into service on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line of the Moscow Metro as part of the UK-Russia Year of Language and Literature and the "Poetry on the Metro" project, Oct. 12, 2016.
TASS/Newscom