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Regina Spektor Postpones Rest of 2022 Dates After Contracting ‘Bad Case of COVID’

The singer had a handful of dates left on the "Home, Before and After" tour.

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After managing to avoid contracting COVID-19 for nearly all of the pandemic, Regina Spektor has come down with what she said was a “terrible” case that has resulted in the postponement of her remaining 2022 tour dates.

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“I have had a really hard time lately, and all your love has been helping me so much,” Spektor continued in her note. “I hope mine reaches you as well. For now- I will have to sing to you from past recordings, and we will reschedule the shows for when the theaters are able to have me back. Please take good care of yourselves. I will try to take good care of myself too. I’m thankfully surrounded by a wonderful team of people and I’m super grateful to doctors and scientists for all they have done to help us get to a better place with this thing.”

Spektor ended her post by saying that her heart is with all the people who have suffered from the many iterations of COVID, from long COVID symptoms to the long list of side effects and the loss of loved ones. “Everything about this seems so individual- to some it is asymptomatic, or some sniffles, and to others it is a long road to recovery or worse, it alters the course of their entire life,” she said.

Spektor’s tour in support of her eighth studio album, Home, Before and After , kicked off in June.

See Spektor’s post below.

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Regina Spektor Postpones Tour Dates amid 'Bad Case' of COVID: 'Bad to Worse to Terrible'

Regina Spektor was able to play the first show of her fall tour in Chicago, but tested positive for COVID shortly after

Singer-songwriter Regina Spektor is postponing all remaining dates on her fall tour as she recovers from a "bad case" of COVID that left her with no voice.

The "Fidelity" singer, 43, kicked off her 11-date tour in Chicago on Sunday night — but two days later, shared with her fans on Instagram that she'd contracted the virus for the first time since the pandemic began.

"I can't believe I'm writing what I'm about to write. After being so careful and miraculously avoiding it for over 2.5 years, I came down with a bad case of Covid," she wrote. "I'm so sorry to everyone who bought tickets and was coming to see me in their town. I have gone from feeling bad, to worse, to terrible. I've lost my voice. I am a bit delirious from fever, so in advance I apologize if this note isn't too coherent."

Spektor said she's been struggling with her symptoms, but appreciated the love and support she'd received from fans. She also made a point of noting that all of the postponed shows would be rescheduled at some point in the future.

"I have had a really hard time lately, and all your love has been helping me so much," she wrote. "I hope mine reaches you as well. For now- I will have to sing to you from past recordings, and we will reschedule the shows for when the theaters are able to have me back."

The musician continued by encouraging fans to "take good care of yourselves," and acknowledged that each individual person's bout with COVID looks different.

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"I just want to add that my heart is with all the people who have suffered from the different iterations of this virus over this long while," she wrote. "Long Covid, side effects, loss of loved ones… Everything about this seems so individual- to some it is asymptomatic, or some sniffles, and to others it is a long road to recovery or worse, it alters the course of their entire life."

Spektor then again expressed her disbelief at having finally caught the virus, and said she would "try and heal up" in order to be able to play for her fans again "as soon as possible."

"I was overjoyed in Chicago to play the first show of the tour- and I'm grateful I got to have at least one night of loving you all from that stage! I felt your love too!" she wrote, signing her note, "Your feverish friend."

Spektor released her eighth studio album, Home, before and after, in June. She was scheduled to play 11 shows through Oct. 27, including a stop at Nashville's famed Ryman Auditorium.

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Regina Spektor postpones tour due to ‘bad case’ of Covid-19

By Dan Heching, CNN

Regina Spektor has put her national tour on hold after coming down with a “bad case” of Covid-19, the singer announced on Instagram.

The Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, 42, wrote that she caught the virus “after being so careful and miraculously avoiding it for over 2.5 years,” and went on to apologize to ticket holders.

“I have gone from feeling bad, to worse, to terrible. I’ve lost my voice. I am a bit delirious from fever, so in advance I apologize if this note isn’t too coherent,” she wrote in a note posted to her official Instagram . “We will reschedule the shows for when the theaters are able to have me back.”

Her now-postponed tour was going to hit cities in New York, New Jersey, DC, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and California.

She performed the opening night of the tour, set to run through the end of this month, in Chicago earlier this week.

“I just want to add that my heart is with all the people who have suffered from the different iterations of this virus over this long while,” Spektor added. “…To some it is asymptomatic, or some sniffles, and to others it is a long road to recovery or worse, it alters the course of their entire life.”

Spektor most recently released “Home, Before and After,” her eighth studio album and the first one in six years.

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Regina Spektor postpones tour due to ‘bad case’ of Covid-19

By Dan Heching, CNN

Regina Spektor has put her national tour on hold after coming down with a “bad case” of Covid-19, the singer announced on Instagram.

The Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, 42, wrote that she caught the virus “after being so careful and miraculously avoiding it for over 2.5 years,” and went on to apologize to ticket holders.

“I have gone from feeling bad, to worse, to terrible. I’ve lost my voice. I am a bit delirious from fever, so in advance I apologize if this note isn’t too coherent,” she wrote in a note posted to her official Instagram . “We will reschedule the shows for when the theaters are able to have me back.”

Her now-postponed tour was going to hit cities in New York, New Jersey, DC, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and California.

She performed the opening night of the tour, set to run through the end of this month, in Chicago earlier this week.

“I just want to add that my heart is with all the people who have suffered from the different iterations of this virus over this long while,” Spektor added. “…To some it is asymptomatic, or some sniffles, and to others it is a long road to recovery or worse, it alters the course of their entire life.”

Spektor most recently released “Home, Before and After,” her eighth studio album and the first one in six years.

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Regina Spektor Announces Rescheduled 2023 Tour Dates, Shares Video for “SugarMan”: Watch

Including new shows in San Diego and Port Chester, NY

Regina Spektor has announced her rescheduled North American tour for 2023 with two additional shows. The dates was originally set for this fall but was postponed due to COVID.

After kicking off in Ithaca, New York on March 1st, the tour will make stops in Toronto, Los Angeles, Nashville, and more before wrapping in Montclair, New Jersey on March 18th. It also includes new shows in San Diego and Port Chester, New York on March 8th and March 16th, respectively.

Grab your seats here for the rescheduled shows, which are also honoring previously purchased tickets. For the San Diego and Port Chester concerts, the artist pre-sale (using code Raindrops23 ) begins on Tuesday, November 15th at 12:00 p.m. ET, with a Live Nation pre-sale (using code HEADLINE ) starting the next day at 10:00 a.m. local time. The public on-sale kicks off on Friday, November 18th via Ticketmaster .

Along with the tour announcement, Spektor shared a new video for “SugarMan” off Home, before and after , her first album in over five years. Watch the “summer tour diary” below.

Read our interview with Spektor about the album, and watch her August NPR Tiny Desk Concert here .

Regina Spektor 2023 Tour Dates: 03/01 — Ithaca, NY @ State Theater 03/02 — Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall 03/03 — Ann Arbor, MI @ Michigan Theater 03/05 — San Francisco, CA @ Warfield 03/07 — Los Angeles, CA @ Walt Disney Concert Hall 03/08 — San Diego, CA @ The Magnolia 03/11 — Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle 03/13 — Nashville, TN @ Ryman 03/15 — Washington, DC @ Warner Theater 03/16 — Port Chester, NY @ Capitol Theater 03/18 — Montclair, NJ @ Wellmont Theater

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Early in Regina Spektor’s (mostly) solo performance Tuesday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall, a voice called out from the audience, “You’re very talented!”

As heckling goes, it was as polite as it sounds, because this was a passionately rapt crowd, mainly restricting itself to the occasional “I love you” (or even “I love your shoes!”). But the comment was also some spot-on music criticism: Spektor is really, really good.

She arrived onstage in a colorful dress with a tiered skirt and white Mary Janes, taking in the audience that flanked her around the hall.

“This is a nice way of being surrounded. Thank you so much,” she said, before twirling a bit, joking that she was moving around for the crowd while she could before sitting down at the piano. “I don’t know how to rotate. I play most of the time with my eyes closed so you’re not missing anything.”

Regina Spektor performs to a sold-out audience at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles on Tuesday, March 7, 2023. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

Regina Spektor speaks with the audience during her performance at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles on Tuesday, March 7, 2023. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

Regina Spektor performs to a sold out-audience at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles on Tuesday, March 7, 2023. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

On a mostly bare stage taken up by a grand piano, Spektor sounded great in the hall as she sang and accompanied herself on the piano for most of the evening, which also included forays into a cappella, electric guitar, drumming on a chair, and — why not? — tap dancing. The show was supporting “Home, Before and After,” her 2022 album; she’d postponed the original tour dates when she got COVID-19.

Opening the show with “Ain’t No Cover,” done with just voice and two fingers tapping on the microphone, Spektor moved to the piano for a run of songs that included favorites such as “Folding Chair” and “Better,” each interspersed with her good-natured comments.

“It’s like a conversation that gets interrupted by songs,” she joked about the night’s program.

She moved over to an electric piano and a wooden chair that she played with a drumstick during “Poor Little Rich Boy” and “Ballad of a Politician,” which led to some brief comments about “insane politicians” and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — she had a shirt for sale at the merch table whose proceeds were going to Ukrainian aid — before launching into a fierce “Apres Moi.”

Then, about midway through the show, Spektor was joined by a tap dancer in white overalls, Caleb Teicher, and they danced together as she sang in a charming routine.

“We’re totally professional,” joked Spektor as they performed “Silly Eye-Color Generalizations” and “Prisoners” with light choreography. “We know what we’re doing.”

Then Teicher — who’s “one of those brilliant types,” she said — moved over to play piano as Spektor sang “It’s You I Like,” a song by beloved children’s TV host Mr. Rogers, which she directed to every part of the hall. Does that sound absolutely lovely? It was.

From there, she moved to guitar and shifted the mood a bit for “Bobbing for Apples” and “That Time.”

“I have to say I’m feeling very guilty right now,” she said, noting the presence of a young fan sitting near the front. “I’m about to curse up a storm.”

Following “Spacetime Fairytale,” Spektor spoke a bit about the Jewish holiday of Purim, before introducing “Ink Stains” a song she’d written after hearing an NPR report on a Holocaust denier, a concept she said she’d never contemplated before, stunned that anyone would deny genocide.

“On Purim, it’s fitting to play this song,” she said before delivering a searing performance of the not-often-played song, which evoked images of concentration camps and those who’d deny their existence.

After that, not ready to finish the show but needing a moment before launching into another song, Spektor suggested that the audience note the arrival of the full moon.

“Let’s just howl at the moon together,” she said as the room erupted into lupine cacophony. “We should just all howl.”

As the noisy pack returned to human form and the mood lightened, Spektor said with appreciation, “Could there be nicer people surrounding me?”

Then, still in strong, clear voice more than 20 songs in, Spektor finished with a string of fan favorites: “On the Radio,” “What Might Have Been” and “Fidelity,” even experiencing a rare flub on the piano.

“It’s only when I open my eyes it’s a problem,” she joked.

Finally, after a brief goodbye and expressions of gratitude to a number of people who’d worked on the show, the hall roared with a loud, enthusiastic standing ovation. Spektor returned for an encore of the lovely “Samson,” which ended the night.

Throughout the evening, Spektor displayed her unique gift for music that’s moving, melancholic, melodic, funny, dark and wonderful. While she could easily be a top-tier singer or a pianist or a songwriter alone, it’s the fusing of her immense talents and idiosyncratic creative impulses that delivers something that’s even better together.

As the man said, she’s very talented.

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When: Tuesday, March 7

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Regina Spektor postpones tour due to ‘bad case’ of Covid-19

Regina Spektor has put her national tour on hold after coming down with a “bad case” of Covid-19, the singer announced on Instagram.

The Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, 42, wrote that she caught the virus “after being so careful and miraculously avoiding it for over 2.5 years,” and went on to apologize to ticket holders.

“I have gone from feeling bad, to worse, to terrible. I’ve lost my voice. I am a bit delirious from fever, so in advance I apologize if this note isn’t too coherent,” she wrote in a note posted to her official Instagram. “We will reschedule the shows for when the theaters are able to have me back.”

Her now-postponed tour was going to hit cities in New York, New Jersey, DC, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and California.

She performed the opening night of the tour, set to run through the end of this month, in Chicago earlier this week.

“I just want to add that my heart is with all the people who have suffered from the different iterations of this virus over this long while,” Spektor added. “…To some it is asymptomatic, or some sniffles, and to others it is a long road to recovery or worse, it alters the course of their entire life.”

Spektor most recently released “Home, Before and After,” her eighth studio album and the first one in six years.

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Regina Spektor has postponed her show Wednesday night in Toronto after testing positive for COVID-19 .

The 42-year-old singer, who was scheduled to perform at Massey Hall on Oct. 12, said in a message to fans on Tuesday that she is pulling the plug on all remaining dates on her tour.

“After being so careful and miraculously avoiding it for over 2.5 years, I came down with a bad case of Covid,” Spektor wrote. “I have gone from feeling bad, to worse, to terrible. I’ve lost my voice. I am a bit delirious from fever.”

Spektor promised the shows will be rescheduled.

“I’m thankfully surrounded by a wonderful team of people and I’m super grateful to doctors and scientists for all they have done to help us get to a better place with this thing,” she added.

“I just want to add that my heart is with all the people who have suffered from the different iterations of this virus over this long while. Long Covid, side effects, loss of loved ones… Everything about this seems so individual – to some it is asymptomatic, or some sniffles, and to others it is a long road to recovery or worse, it alters the course of their entire life.”

Spektor played only the first of 11 shows on the tour, which followed the June release of her eighth studio album, Home, before and after .

It's been a rough year for Toronto concert-goers. The Weeknd , Justin Bieber , Shawn Mendes , Santigold , Bauhaus , The Avalanches , New Kids On The Block , Yungblud and Metronomy are among the acts who pushed or scrapped shows scheduled in the city – often on short notice.

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Fresh off the release of her new album Home, before and after, singer, songwriter, and pianist Regina Spektor makes her Walt Disney Concert Hall debut. With a sophisticated marriage of her classical training and a gift for sharp pop hooks and nuanced lyrics, she’s created a singular, instantly recognizable sound. You may have heard it in the theme song to Netflix’s Orange is the New Black or on The Hamilton Mixtape . Or you may have heard singles like “On the Radio,” “Better,” “Samson,” or “Fidelity” when they were burning up the radio. Or maybe you know her 2016 album, Remember Us to Life , which was praised by NPR, New York Magazine , and more. Whatever the case, when you hear Regina Spektor, you know it’s her. Don’t miss this special evening with a brilliant songwriter.

Please note : The previously postponed Regina Spektor concert scheduled for October 27 at Walt Disney Concert Hall is now scheduled for Tuesday, March 7. Tickets to the original October 27 concert will be valid for the March 7 date. For other ticket options including exchange, account credit, donation, or refund, please contact Audience Services prior to the concert at  [email protected] . 

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A Brief Introduction

Moscow’s Metro was a long time coming. Plans for rapid transit to relieve the city’s beleaguered tram system date back to the Imperial era, but a couple of wars and a revolution held up its development. Stalin revived it as part of his grand plan to modernize the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 30s. The first lines and tunnels were constructed with help from engineers from the London Underground, although Stalin’s secret police decided that they had learned too much about Moscow’s layout and had them arrested on espionage charges and deported.

The beauty of its stations (if not its trains) is well-documented, and certainly no accident. In its illustrious first phases and particularly after the Second World War, the greatest architects of Soviet era were recruited to create gleaming temples celebrating the Revolution, the USSR, and the war triumph. No two stations are exactly alike, and each of the classic showpieces has a theme. There are world-famous shrines to Futurist architecture, a celebration of electricity, tributes to individuals and regions of the former Soviet Union. Each marble slab, mosaic tile, or light fixture was placed with intent, all in service to a station’s aesthetic; each element, f rom the smallest brass ear of corn to a large blood-spattered sword on a World War II mural, is an essential part of the whole.

The Metro is a monument to the Soviet propaganda project it was intended to be when it opened in 1935 with the slogan “Building a Palace for the People”. It brought the grand interiors of Imperial Russia to ordinary Muscovites, celebrated the Soviet Union’s past achievements while promising its citizens a bright Soviet future, and of course, it was a show-piece for the world to witness the might and sophistication of life in the Soviet Union.

It may be a museum, but it’s no relic. U p to nine million people use it daily, more than the London Underground and New York Subway combined. (Along with, at one time, about 20 stray dogs that learned to commute on the Metro.)

In its 80+ year history, the Metro has expanded in phases and fits and starts, in step with the fortunes of Moscow and Russia. Now, partly in preparation for the World Cup 2018, it’s also modernizing. New trains allow passengers to walk the entire length of the train without having to change carriages. The system is becoming more visitor-friendly. (There are helpful stickers on the floor marking out the best selfie spots .) But there’s a price to modernity: it’s phasing out one of its beloved institutions, the escalator attendants. Often they are middle-aged or elderly women—“ escalator grandmas ” in news accounts—who have held the post for decades, sitting in their tiny kiosks, scolding commuters for bad escalator etiquette or even bad posture, or telling jokes . They are slated to be replaced, when at all, by members of the escalator maintenance staff.

For all its achievements, the Metro lags behind Moscow’s above-ground growth, as Russia’s capital sprawls ever outwards, generating some of the world’s worst traffic jams . But since 2011, the Metro has been in the middle of an ambitious and long-overdue enlargement; 60 new stations are opening by 2020. If all goes to plan, the 2011-2020 period will have brought 125 miles of new tracks and over 100 new stations — a 40 percent increase — the fastest and largest expansion phase in any period in the Metro’s history.

Facts: 14 lines Opening hours: 5 a.m-1 a.m. Rush hour(s): 8-10 a.m, 4-8 p.m. Single ride: 55₽ (about 85 cents) Wi-Fi network-wide

Buying Tickets

• Ticket machines have a button to switch to English.
• You can buy specific numbers of rides: 1, 2, 5, 11, 20, or 60. Hold up fingers to show how many rides you want to buy.
• There is also a 90-minute ticket , which gets you 1 trip on the metro plus an unlimited number of transfers on other transport (bus, tram, etc) within 90 minutes.
• Or, you can buy day tickets with unlimited rides: one day (218₽/ US$4), three days (415₽/US$7) or seven days (830₽/US$15). Check the rates here to stay up-to-date.
• If you’re going to be using the Metro regularly over a few days, it’s worth getting a Troika card , a contactless, refillable card you can use on all public transport. Using the Metro is cheaper with one of these: a single ride is 36₽, not 55₽. Buy them and refill them in the Metro stations, and they’re valid for 5 years, so you can keep it for next time. Or, if you have a lot of cash left on it when you leave, you can get it refunded at the Metro Service Centers at Ulitsa 1905 Goda, 25 or at Staraya Basmannaya 20, Building 1.
• You can also buy silicone bracelets and keychains with built-in transport chips that you can use as a Troika card. (A Moscow Metro Fitbit!) So far, you can only get these at the Pushkinskaya metro station Live Helpdesk and souvenir shops in the Mayakovskaya and Trubnaya metro stations. The fare is the same as for the Troika card.
• You can also use Apple Pay and Samsung Pay.

Rules, spoken and unspoken

No smoking, no drinking, no filming, no littering. Photography is allowed, although it used to be banned.

Stand to the right on the escalator. Break this rule and you risk the wrath of the legendary escalator attendants. (No shenanigans on the escalators in general.)

Get out of the way. Find an empty corner to hide in when you get off a train and need to stare at your phone. Watch out getting out of the train in general; when your train doors open, people tend to appear from nowhere or from behind ornate marble columns, walking full-speed.

Always offer your seat to elderly ladies (what are you, a monster?).

An Easy Tour

This is no Metro Marathon ( 199 stations in 20 hours ). It’s an easy tour, taking in most—though not all—of the notable stations, the bulk of it going clockwise along the Circle line, with a couple of short detours. These stations are within minutes of one another, and the whole tour should take about 1-2 hours.

Start at Mayakovskaya Metro station , at the corner of Tverskaya and Garden Ring,  Triumfalnaya Square, Moskva, Russia, 125047.

1. Mayakovskaya.  Named for Russian Futurist Movement poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and an attempt to bring to life the future he imagined in his poems. (The Futurist Movement, natch, was all about a rejecting the past and celebrating all things speed, industry, modern machines, youth, modernity.) The result: an Art Deco masterpiece that won the National Grand Prix for architecture at the New York World’s Fair in 1939. It’s all smooth, rounded shine and light, and gentle arches supported by columns of dark pink marble and stainless aircraft steel. Each of its 34 ceiling niches has a mosaic. During World War II, the station was used as an air-raid shelter and, at one point, a bunker for Stalin. He gave a subdued but rousing speech here in Nov. 6, 1941 as the Nazis bombed the city above.

Take the 3/Green line one station to:

2. Belorusskaya. Opened in 1952, named after the connected Belarussky Rail Terminal, which runs trains between Moscow and Belarus. This is a light marble affair with a white, cake-like ceiling, lined with Belorussian patterns and 12 Florentine ceiling mosaics depicting life in Belarussia when it was built.

Transfer onto the 1/Brown line. Then, one stop (clockwise) t o:

3. Novoslobodskaya.  This station was designed around the stained-glass panels, which were made in Latvia, because Alexey Dushkin, the Soviet starchitect who dreamed it up (and also designed Mayakovskaya station) couldn’t find the glass and craft locally. The stained glass is the same used for Riga’s Cathedral, and the panels feature plants, flowers, members of the Soviet intelligentsia (musician, artist, architect) and geometric shapes.

Go two stops east on the 1/Circle line to:

4. Komsomolskaya. Named after the Komsomol, or the Young Communist League, this might just be peak Stalin Metro style. Underneath the hub for three regional railways, it was intended to be a grand gateway to Moscow and is today its busiest station. It has chandeliers; a yellow ceiling with Baroque embellishments; and in the main hall, a colossal red star overlaid on golden, shimmering tiles. Designer Alexey Shchusev designed it as an homage to the speech Stalin gave at Red Square on Nov. 7, 1941, in which he invoked Russia’s illustrious military leaders as a pep talk to Soviet soldiers through the first catastrophic year of the war.   The station’s eight large mosaics are of the leaders referenced in the speech, such as Alexander Nevsky, a 13th-century prince and military commander who bested German and Swedish invading armies.

One more stop clockwise to Kurskaya station,  and change onto the 3/Blue  line, and go one stop to:

5. Baumanskaya.   Opened in 1944. Named for the Bolshevik Revolutionary Nikolai Bauman , whose monument and namesake district are aboveground here. Though he seemed like a nasty piece of work (he apparently once publicly mocked a woman he had impregnated, who later hung herself), he became a Revolutionary martyr when he was killed in 1905 in a skirmish with a monarchist, who hit him on the head with part of a steel pipe. The station is in Art Deco style with atmospherically dim lighting, and a series of bronze sculptures of soldiers and homefront heroes during the War. At one end, there is a large mosaic portrait of Lenin.

Stay on that train direction one more east to:

6. Elektrozavodskaya. As you may have guessed from the name, this station is the Metro’s tribute to all thing electrical, built in 1944 and named after a nearby lightbulb factory. It has marble bas-relief sculptures of important figures in electrical engineering, and others illustrating the Soviet Union’s war-time struggles at home. The ceiling’s recurring rows of circular lamps give the station’s main tunnel a comforting glow, and a pleasing visual effect.

Double back two stops to Kurskaya station , and change back to the 1/Circle line. Sit tight for six stations to:

7. Kiyevskaya. This was the last station on the Circle line to be built, in 1954, completed under Nikita Khrushchev’ s guidance, as a tribute to his homeland, Ukraine. Its three large station halls feature images celebrating Ukraine’s contributions to the Soviet Union and Russo-Ukrainian unity, depicting musicians, textile-working, soldiers, farmers. (One hall has frescoes, one mosaics, and the third murals.) Shortly after it was completed, Khrushchev condemned the architectural excesses and unnecessary luxury of the Stalin era, which ushered in an epoch of more austere Metro stations. According to the legend at least, he timed the policy in part to ensure no Metro station built after could outshine Kiyevskaya.

Change to the 3/Blue line and go one stop west.

8. Park Pobedy. This is the deepest station on the Metro, with one of the world’s longest escalators, at 413 feet. If you stand still, the escalator ride to the surface takes about three minutes .) Opened in 2003 at Victory Park, the station celebrates two of Russia’s great military victories. Each end has a mural by Georgian artist Zurab Tsereteli, who also designed the “ Good Defeats Evil ” statue at the UN headquarters in New York. One mural depicts the Russian generals’ victory over the French in 1812 and the other, the German surrender of 1945. The latter is particularly striking; equal parts dramatic, triumphant, and gruesome. To the side, Red Army soldiers trample Nazi flags, and if you look closely there’s some blood spatter among the detail. Still, the biggest impressions here are the marble shine of the chessboard floor pattern and the pleasingly geometric effect if you view from one end to the other.

Keep going one more stop west to:

9. Slavyansky Bulvar.  One of the Metro’s youngest stations, it opened in 2008. With far higher ceilings than many other stations—which tend to have covered central tunnels on the platforms—it has an “open-air” feel (or as close to it as you can get, one hundred feet under). It’s an homage to French architect Hector Guimard, he of the Art Nouveau entrances for the Paris M é tro, and that’s precisely what this looks like: A Moscow homage to the Paris M é tro, with an additional forest theme. A Cyrillic twist on Guimard’s Metro-style lettering over the benches, furnished with t rees and branch motifs, including creeping vines as towering lamp-posts.

Stay on the 3/Blue line and double back four stations to:

10. Arbatskaya. Its first iteration, Arbatskaya-Smolenskaya station, was damaged by German bombs in 1941. It was rebuilt in 1953, and designed to double as a bomb shelter in the event of nuclear war, although unusually for stations built in the post-war phase, this one doesn’t have a war theme. It may also be one of the system’s most elegant: Baroque, but toned down a little, with red marble floors and white ceilings with gilded bronze c handeliers.

Jump back on the 3/Blue line  in the same direction and take it one more stop:

11. Ploshchad Revolyutsii (Revolution Square). Opened in 1938, and serving Red Square and the Kremlin . Its renowned central hall has marble columns flanked by 76 bronze statues of Soviet heroes: soldiers, students, farmers, athletes, writers, parents. Some of these statues’ appendages have a yellow sheen from decades of Moscow’s commuters rubbing them for good luck. Among the most popular for a superstitious walk-by rub: the snout of a frontier guard’s dog, a soldier’s gun (where the touch of millions of human hands have tapered the gun barrel into a fine, pointy blade), a baby’s foot, and a woman’s knee. (A brass rooster also sports the telltale gold sheen, though I am told that rubbing the rooster is thought to bring bad luck. )

Now take the escalator up, and get some fresh air.

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The Comprehensive Guide to Moscow Nightlife

• Posted on April 14, 2018 July 26, 2018
• by Kings of Russia
• 8 minute read

Moscow’s nightlife scene is thriving, and arguably one of the best the world has to offer – top-notch Russian women, coupled with a never-ending list of venues, Moscow has a little bit of something for everyone’s taste. Moscow nightlife is not for the faint of heart – and if you’re coming, you better be ready to go Friday and Saturday night into the early morning.

This comprehensive guide to Moscow nightlife will run you through the nuts and bolts of all you need to know about Moscow’s nightclubs and give you a solid blueprint to operate with during your time in Moscow.

What you need to know before hitting Moscow nightclubs

Prices in moscow nightlife.

Before you head out and start gaming all the sexy Moscow girls , we have to talk money first. Bring plenty because in Moscow you can never bring a big enough bankroll. Remember, you’re the man so making a fuzz of not paying a drink here or there will not go down well.

Luckily most Moscow clubs don’t do cover fees. Some electro clubs will charge 15-20$, depending on their lineup. There’s the odd club with a minimum spend of 20-30$, which you’ll drop on drinks easily. By and large, you can scope out the venues for free, which is a big plus.

Bottle service is a great deal in Moscow. At top-tier clubs, it starts at 1,000$. That’ll go a long way with premium vodka at 250$, especially if you have three or four guys chipping in. Not to mention that it’s a massive status boost for getting girls, especially at high-end clubs.

Without bottle service, you should estimate a budget of 100-150$ per night. That is if you drink a lot and hit the top clubs with the hottest girls. Scale down for less alcohol and more basic places.

Dress code & Face control

Door policy in Moscow is called “face control” and it’s always the guy behind the two gorillas that gives the green light if you’re in or out.

In Moscow nightlife there’s only one rule when it comes to dress codes:

You can never be underdressed.

People dress A LOT sharper than, say, in the US and that goes for both sexes. For high-end clubs, you definitely want to roll with a sharp blazer and a pocket square, not to mention dress shoes in tip-top condition. Those are the minimum requirements to level the playing field vis a vis with other sharply dressed guys that have a lot more money than you do. Unless you plan to hit explicit electro or underground clubs, which have their own dress code, you are always on the money with that style.

Getting in a Moscow club isn’t as hard as it seems: dress sharp, speak English at the door and look like you’re in the mood to spend all that money that you supposedly have (even if you don’t). That will open almost any door in Moscow’s nightlife for you.

Types of Moscow Nightclubs

In Moscow there are four types of clubs with the accompanying female clientele:

High-end clubs:

These are often crossovers between restaurants and clubs with lots of tables and very little space to dance. Heavy accent on bottle service most of the time but you can work the room from the bar as well. The hottest and most expensive girls in Moscow go there. Bring deep pockets and lots of self-confidence and you have a shot at swooping them.

Regular Mid-level clubs:

They probably resemble more what you’re used to in a nightclub: big dancefloors, stages and more space to roam around. Bottle service will make you stand out more but you can also do well without. You can find all types of girls but most will be in the 6-8 range. Your targets should always be the girls drinking and ideally in pairs. It’s impossible not to swoop if your game is at least half-decent.

Basic clubs/dive bars:

Usually spots with very cheap booze and lax face control. If you’re dressed too sharp and speak no Russian, you might attract the wrong type of attention so be vigilant. If you know the local scene you can swoop 6s and 7s almost at will. Usually students and girls from the suburbs.

Electro/underground clubs:

Home of the hipsters and creatives. Parties there don’t mean meeting girls and getting drunk but doing pills and spacing out to the music. Lots of attractive hipster girls if that is your niche. That is its own scene with a different dress code as well.

What time to go out in Moscow

Moscow nightlife starts late. Don’t show up at bars and preparty spots before 11pm because you’ll feel fairly alone. Peak time is between 1am and 3am. That is also the time of Moscow nightlife’s biggest nuisance: concerts by artists you won’t know and who only distract your girls from drinking and being gamed. From 4am to 6am the regular clubs are emptying out but plenty of people, women included, still hit up one of the many afterparty clubs. Those last till well past 10am.

As far as days go: Fridays and Saturdays are peak days. Thursday is an OK day, all other days are fairly weak and you have to know the right venues.

The Ultimate Moscow Nightclub List

Short disclaimer: I didn’t add basic and electro clubs since you’re coming for the girls, not for the music. This list will give you more options than you’ll be able to handle on a weekend.

Preparty – start here at 11PM

Classic restaurant club with lots of tables and a smallish bar and dancefloor. Come here between 11pm and 12am when the concert is over and they start with the actual party. Even early in the night tons of sexy women here, who lean slightly older (25 and up).

The second floor of the Ugolek restaurant is an extra bar with dim lights and house music tunes. Very small and cozy with a slight hipster vibe but generally draws plenty of attractive women too. A bit slower vibe than Valenok.

Very cool, spread-out venue that has a modern library theme. Not always full with people but when it is, it’s brimming with top-tier women. Slow vibe here and better for grabbing contacts and moving on.

High-end: err on the side of being too early rather than too late because of face control.

Secret Room

Probably the top venue at the moment in Moscow . Very small but wildly popular club, which is crammed with tables but always packed. They do parties on Thursdays and Sundays as well. This club has a hip-hop/high-end theme, meaning most girls are gold diggers, IG models, and tattooed hip hop chicks. Very unfavorable logistics because there is almost no room no move inside the club but the party vibe makes it worth it. Strict face control.

Close to Secret Room and with a much more favorable and spacious three-part layout. This place attracts very hot women but also lots of ball busters and fakes that will leave you blue-balled. Come early because after 4am it starts getting empty fast. Electronic music.

A slightly kitsch restaurant club that plays Russian pop and is full of gold diggers, semi-pros, and men from the Caucasus republics. Thursday is the strongest night but that dynamic might be changing since Secret Room opened its doors. You can swoop here but it will be a struggle.

Mid-level: your sweet spot in terms of ease and attractiveness of girls for an average budget.

Started going downwards in 2018 due to lax face control and this might get even worse with the World Cup. In terms of layout one of the best Moscow nightclubs because it’s very big and bottle service gives you a good edge here. Still attracts lots of cute girls with loose morals but plenty of provincial girls (and guys) as well. Swooping is fairly easy here.

I haven’t been at this place in over a year, ever since it started becoming ground zero for drunken teenagers. Similar clientele to Icon but less chic, younger and drunker. Decent mainstream music that attracts plenty of tourists. Girls are easy here as well.

Sort of a Coyote Ugly (the real one in Moscow sucks) with party music and lots of drunken people licking each others’ faces. Very entertaining with the right amount of alcohol and very easy to pull in there. Don’t think about staying sober in here, you’ll hate it.

Artel Bessonitsa/Shakti Terrace

Electronic music club that is sort of a high-end place with an underground clientele and located between the teenager clubs Icon and Gipsy. Very good music but a bit all over the place with their vibe and their branding. You can swoop almost any type of girl here from high-heeled beauty to coked-up hipsters, provided they’re not too sober.

Afterparty: if by 5AM  you haven’t pulled, it’s time to move here.

Best afterparty spot in terms of trying to get girls. Pretty much no one is sober in there and savage gorilla game goes a long way. Lots of very hot and slutty-looking girls but it can be hard to tell apart who is looking for dick and who is just on drugs but not interested. If by 9-10am you haven’t pulled, it is probably better to surrender.

The hipster alternative for afterparties, where even more drugs are in play. Plenty of attractive girls there but you have to know how to work this type of club. A nicer atmosphere and better music but if you’re desperate to pull, you’ll probably go to Miks.

Weekday jokers: if you’re on the hunt for some sexy Russian girls during the week, here are two tips to make your life easier.

Chesterfield

Ladies night on Wednesdays means this place gets pretty packed with smashed teenagers and 6s and 7s. Don’t pull out the three-piece suit in here because it’s a “simpler” crowd. Definitely your best shot on Wednesdays.

If you haven’t pulled at Chesterfield, you can throw a Hail Mary and hit up Garage’s Black Music Wednesdays. Fills up really late but there are some cute Black Music groupies in here. Very small club. Thursday through Saturday they do afterparties and you have an excellent shot and swooping girls that are probably high.

Shishas Sferum

This is pretty much your only shot on Mondays and Tuesdays because they offer free or almost free drinks for women. A fairly low-class club where you should watch your drinks. As always the case in Moscow, there will be cute girls here on any day of the week but it’s nowhere near as good as on the weekend.

In a nutshell, that is all you need to know about where to meet Moscow girls in nightlife. There are tons of options, and it all depends on what best fits your style, based on the type of girls that you’re looking for.

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