Pokemon Ghost? New app encourages Muscovites to 'catch' historic figures

Russian authorities hope residents and visitors will be as keen to hunt Napoleon and Tchaikovsky as Nidoking and Tirtouga

Moscow authorities have developed a Pokemon Go-style app in the hope of piggybacking on the game's popularity to promote the history of the city.

The app encourages users to hunt for historic people connected to the city and "catch" them by taking a selfie with a 3-D representation of each figure on their smartphone, according to Moscow's department of information technologies.