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Kicking off in Canada at Vancouver’s Orpheum on May 2, 2023 Crowded House will then undertake a further 17 shows throughout the month

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Crowded House have shared details for the rescheduled North American leg of their ‘Dreamers Are Waiting’ tour, now set to commence in 2023.

Kicking off in Canada at Vancouver’s Orpheum on May 2, Crowded House will then undertake a further 17 shows throughout the month, including two back-to-back performances at Los Angeles’ Wiltern. You can check out all the date below.

The North American leg was originally due to commence in Philadelphia last month, but was postponed after drummer Elroy Finn sustained a “painful” injury to his lower back.

At the time, frontman Neil Finn said: “We are advised that there may be some risk in the recovery process for him to play shows at this time. The good health and future well-being of the band members has to be our priority.”

Tickets for original show dates remain valid for the new run. Remaining tickets are on sale now for all new shows.

The tour comes in support of (and is named for) Crowded House’s seventh album , last year’s Dreamers Are Waiting . The release marked Crowded House’s first album in 11 years, heralded by its lead single, “To The Island”.

Crowded House’s ‘Dreamers Are Waiting’ 2023 US tour dates are as follows:

MAY: Tuesday 2 – Vancouver, BC, Orpheum Wednesday 3 – Seattle, WA, Paramount Theatre Thursday 4 – Portland, OR, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall Saturday 6 – Oakland, CA, Fox Theater Monday 8 – Los Angeles, CA, The Wiltern Tuesday 9 – Los Angeles, CA, The Wiltern Wednesday 10 – Mesa, AZ, Mesa Arts Center Friday 12 – Denver, CO, Paramount Theatre Sunday 14 – Minneapolis, MN, State Theatre Monday 15 – Chicago, IL, Chicago Theatre Wednesday 17 – Durham, NC, The Carolina Theatre of Durham-Fletcher Hall Friday 19 – Nashvillle, TN, Ryman Auditorium Sunday 21 – Washington, DC, The Anthem Monday 22 – New York, NY, Beacon Theatre Wednesday 24 – Philadelphia, PA, The Met Friday 26 – Red Bank, NJ, Count Basie Center for the Arts Saturday 27 – Toronto, ON, Budweiser Stage Tuesday 30 – Boston, MA, Wang Theatre at Boch Center.

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This show has been rescheduled to Sunday, May 14, 2023 at 8 p.m. Patrons who have already bought tickets will have their tickets honored. 

Neil Finn on behalf of Crowded House :

Crowded House are disappointed to announce that we must postpone our upcoming North American tour. Our drummer Elroy is currently suffering a painful lower back injury and is receiving medical treatment for it. We are advised that there may be some risk in the recovery process for him to play shows at this time. The good health and future well-being of the band members has to be our priority and we have been assured that Elroy will fully recover in a matter of weeks given rest and rehabilitation.

As I’m sure those who recently saw us play in Europe and U.K will attest, we have developed into a formidable live band over the past year and want to bring our fans in North America the show at full strength, which is what you deserve. We apologize to all those who bought tickets for this tour but we will be announcing a new schedule as soon as we can.

Crowded House is a long standing and much loved vehicle for the song writing talents of Neil Finn. Formed in Melbourne, Australia in 1985 out the ashes of New Zealand’s Split Enz by Neil, Paul Hester and Nick Seymour, their eponymous self-titled debut album on Capitol Records went on to global success with the hits “Don’t Dream It’s Over” and “Something So Strong”. Those songs and many that followed are still resonating with audiences today, the former in particular being one of the most covered songs of the last 20 years. The bands first incarnation lasted from 1985 through 1995 with four studio albums and enjoyed much success worldwide, becoming beloved for their freewheeling and interactive live shows. This lineup said “farewell to the world” on the steps of the Sydney Opera House in 1996 with a now legendary performance in front of 150,000 people.

In 2005 following the tragic death of Paul Hester, Neil and Nick felt emotionally compelled to bring Crowded House back, to put some more good history, as they described it, into the story of the band. Drafting in new drummer, Matt Sherrod, and with long time touring member, Mark Hart, they released the album Time On Earth to critical acclaim and toured the world. Another album, Intriguer , was recorded in 2009 and Crowded House was inducted into the Aria Hall of Fame in 2016, at the same time reprising its farewell shows at the Sydney Opera House with three nights of stunning performances.

Following Neil’s surprise star turn and a very successful world tour with Fleetwood Mac, Neil and Nick have been energized and inspired to begin a new chapter in the Crowded House story. Much like Fleetwood Mac, a new generation seems to have grown up and connected with their songs and now want to experience the band live. Crowded House will be kicking off the next chapter of their story by appearing as a headliner at the Byron Bay Blues and Roots festival with an exciting new lineup, which will include a special guest appearance by Crowded House producer and respected keyboardist Mitchell Froom.

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Crowded House review – a joyous and long-awaited return to Australia

Adelaide Entertainment Centre Over the last decade, Neil Finn joined Fleetwood Mac, his sons joined Crowded House, and they finally released a new album. For some in the packed arena, their return feels quasi-religious

N eil Finn has spent much of his life onstage, but he’s the first to admit his between-song “patter” is a little rusty. He stops himself in the middle of an anecdote about spending the previous day cycling around Adelaide , perhaps sensing it’s one dad joke too far – even for the demographic mix of a Crowded House show in the year 2022.

“It’s a great story isn’t it, Liam?” he says, looking to his eldest son on his right.

“I wasn’t going to say anything,” Liam replies drolly. “It’s the first night and all.”

It’s been a decade since Finn’s signature band last toured Australia, and almost three years since his most recent lap of the country as the unexpected new member of Fleetwood Mac. And while there’s been turnover in Crowded House’s ranks of late, it’s of a different sort to the turbulent revolving door of Finn’s other band.

This incarnation of the group he founded with bassist Nick Seymour and the late Paul Hester in 1986 might technically be a new lineup, but they’re all familiar faces. Finally hitting the road after reuniting just before the pandemic, Finn and a kilt-wearing Seymour are now officially joined by Neil’s sons – Liam on guitar and vocals, and Elroy on drums – while Mitchell Froom, the American producer who cut much of the band’s early, seminal work, sits up the back on keys.

For the younger two, this band is in their DNA. On opening song Weather With You, Liam’s indelibly Finn-ish voice effortlessly slots into place alongside his father’s, singing a harmony originated by his uncle Tim during the band’s first family crossover era back in 1991. On 1993’s Pineapple Head, they play along as their dad sings lyrics partly inspired by the incoherent ramblings of a young, feverish Liam.

Liam and Elroy are no longer kids, but seasoned performers in their own right – and at 38, Liam is now the same age his father was when the band first farewelled the world back in 1996. Backed by his brother’s steady rhythm, he confidently, reverently metes out those instantly recognisable 12-string guitar melodies – and adds a few chaotic squalls of his own.

A few songs in Seymour admits he’s a “a bit puffed”, having contracted Covid around six weeks ago and still feeling it in the lungs. He needn’t worry; this is a crowded house in every sense, and the near-capacity Adelaide Entertainment Centre sings along with gusto. A grinning Neil basks in the sound of several thousand people belting his words back at him, and on hits like Fall At Your Feet and Something So Strong he can’t help but keep the song going, inviting us to sing along once the rest of the band have finished. He even splices in the chorus of his 1980 Split Enz hit I Got You and The Kinks’ Sunny Afternoon for good measure.

After such a rousing response to the classics, generous helpings of new material from the band’s recently released seventh album Dreamers Are Waiting inevitably sacrifice some of the energy in the room. While songs like Playing With Fire and the defiant Whatever You Want bring some earwormy hooks and a familiar, dreamlike quality, they are unlikely to upset the tracklist of the next Greatest Hits compilation just yet – but it’s hardly their fault they haven’t had decades to grow on us. For now though, they show us a band with purpose beyond revisiting past glories.

To make up for the dip in crowdsourced backing vocals, Neil invites the members of opening band Middle Kids onstage for a few songs, telling the audience it’s one of the few places these tourmates are able to hang. “We can’t really mix backstage – all that bubble shit,” Neil says. When Middle Kids songwriter Hannah Joy makes a joke about a subsequent lack of backstage rock’n’roll antics, he muses that they were never particularly “rock’n’roll”. “These days, just rolls,” he adds.

This is a band that after all these years plays with an unspoken, familial fluency, and a lot of love. It’s hard to tell who appreciates it more, the audience or Neil. For some though, it’s a quasi-religious experience: the man beside me leaps to his feet after every song while texting excited observations to his own two sons, and a woman a few rows over gets busted trying to send a scribbled note on to the stage via paper plane.

Returning to the stage had been a “joyous occasion”, Neil says in a final thank you to the crowd, but that’s been obvious all night. It’s certainly evident during their biggest hit, Don’t Dream It’s Over, where once again the Finns and their comrades start the song, but the audience helps bring it home. As that big, wistful chorus hangs in the air, Finn beams at the crowd: “Makes me believe it when I hear you sing it.”

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Crowded House add more dates to ‘Dreamers Are Waiting’ tour

The majority of the original shows have sold out

Crowded House have announced an additional four dates for their ‘Dreamers Are Waiting’ tour, their first Australian tour in 12 years.

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The shows – in support of their recent album ‘Dreamers Are Waiting’ – will see Crowded House play concerts in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth throughout April, with Middle Kids onboard to support. Tickets for shows in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney are already sold out, with additional tickets released for the previously sold-out Adelaide show.

Today (February 17), Crowded House declared they would be playing past the tour’s original last show at Bluesfest – where they join a lineup featuring Paul Kelly , Midnight Oil , Jimmy Barnes and more – adding four more dates to the run.

The new shows include two additional days at A Day On The Green in Geelong and the Hunter Valley – inclusive of the original Bowral edition of the touring festival, where The Teskey Brothers will serve as the opening act – as well as performances in Hobart and Canberra. Find all existing and new tour dates below.

Crowded House were set to headline Bluesfest’s 2020 edition  before it was cancelled due to COVID-19 and subsequent restrictions. The 2021 festival was also cancelled , just one day before it was set to go ahead.

The ‘Dreamers Are Waiting’ tour kicks off in Perth on April 1. Tickets for the four new shows go on sale at 11am AEDT on Thursday February 24.

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Last November, Crowded House picked up an ARIA award for Best Adult Contemporary Album for ‘Dreamers Are Waiting’, marking their 12th ARIA overall and their first since they were inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2016.

Bluesfest 2022 will also see The Cat Empire perform their final-ever show with their original lineup, playing a headlining set on opening night .

Crowded House’s 2022 Australian tour dates are:

APRIL Friday 1 – Perth, Kings Park and Botanic Gardens Saturday 2 – Perth, Kings Park and Botanic Gardens Sunday 3 – Perth, Kings Park and Botanic Gardens Tuesday 5 – Adelaide, Adelaide Entertainment Centre Friday 8 – Melbourne, Sidney Myer Music Bowl Tuesday 12 – Sydney, Aware Super Theatre Wednesday 13 – Sydney, Aware Super Theatre Saturday 16 – Bowral, Centennial Vineyards (A Day On The Green) Sunday 17 – Byron Bay, Bluesfest Tuesday 19 – Hobart, Mystate Bank Arena (new show) Thursday 21 – Canberra, Royal Theatre (new show) Saturday 23 – Geelong, Mt Duneed Estate (A Day On The Green) Sunday 24 –Hunter Valley, Bimbadgen (A Day On The Green) (new show)

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The Magic of Crowded House Stretches on Forever

Crowded House bass player Nick Seymour speaks to Rolling Stone Australia ahead of the band’s long-awaited Dreamers Are Waiting Australian tour this month.

On the eve of Crowded House’s first Australian tour in more than a decade , Nick Seymour and the rest of the band have set up camp at The Music Farm, a residential recording studio in the Byron Bay Hinterland. Curiously, rehearsal for the tour—which is the band’s first of any kind in 12 months—has not been the number one priority. 

“We have actually been trying to seize the opportunity of just being in the same place at the same time to work through some new songs for a possible new album,” says Seymour, the band’s bass player and resident graphic artist.

Should the sessions prove fruitful, it would be Crowded House’s eighth album and the follow-up to 2021’s Dreamers Are Waiting ; the Neil Finn-led group’s first album after an eleven-year break. 

Seymour and Finn have been playing together since 1985. Seymour successfully auditioned for Finn and drummer Paul Hester’s fledgling post-Split Enz group, The Mullanes. The trio soon adopted the name Crowded House and signed a record deal with Capitol Records/EMI. Their self-titled debut album was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Mitchell Froom and released internationally in August 1986.

Froom—an American pianist and keyboard player with production credits on albums by Bonnie Raitt, Rufus Wainwright, Randy Newman and Paul McCartney—is now a fully-fledged member of Crowded House. Finn’s adult sons, drummer Elroy and guitarist Liam Finn, have also joined, making Crowded House a five-piece for the first time in its 35-year existence.

The new-look lineup loaded into North Hollywood’s Valentine Recording Studios just prior to the pandemic, laying down the beds for Dreamers Are Waiting . According to Liam Finn, Neil “really wanted it to feel like a band again,” something the lively comeback singles, “Whatever You Want” and “Playing With Fire”, made immediately apparent. 

The fivesome demonstrate patent musical chemistry on Dreamers Are Waiting , deftly supporting Finn’s writerly lyricism and melodic talent, and earning Dreamers Are Waiting a seat at the table alongside Crowded House’s canonical releases from the nineteen-eighties and nineties. 

But one can’t help but wonder, why the eleven-year break? Did Neil Finn’s solo commitments get in the way? He released the albums Dizzy Heights (2014) and Out of Silence (2017) during the band’s downtime, as well as Lightsleeper (2018), an album credited to Neil & Liam Finn. 

Or perhaps the delay was a result of Finn joining Fleetwood Mac in 2018. Yeah—along with guitarist Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers fame, Finn was recruited to replace long-time Fleetwood guitarist and vocalist, Lindsey Buckingham, who was removed from the band due to intra-band tension. 

If you ask Seymour, Crowded House’s dormancy was anything but planned. “Neil went on to write as prolifically as he does and then the next obvious thing was to turn to the people that are around him physically,” he says, referring to Liam, Elroy and Finn’s wife, Sharon.

A born-and-raised Victorian, Seymour and his partner reside in the Irish town of Sligo, a coastal town in the Irish Republic’s western province of Connacht. “I love living there,” says Seymour, despite Sligo being about as far away from Finn’s home in Auckland as you can get without leaving the planet. “In this day of carbon footprint awareness, it does make it tricky,” he says. 

Seymour gravitated to Ireland after the break-up of Crowded House in the mid-nineties. “It was having an incredible boom, both culturally and economically, and I found it a really empathetic place,” he says. “I’m from a family with Celtic roots, a family of lefties, both my parents were school teachers—I found it such an incredibly comfortable place to live.”

As a self-described lefty, what’s Seymour’s impression of contemporary Australia, watching from afar? “I do genuinely believe that the pursuit of free market economics is going to come back and bite people in the arse when the infrastructures are breaking down because of profiteering,” he says. 

People living in flood affected areas of southern Queensland and northern New South Wales might argue the “leave it to the market” dogma is already biting them in the arse. Though, Seymour’s not wholly pessimistic. “The Medicare system in Australia is absolutely extraordinary,” he says. “It’s world class and it’s obviously shown its integrity given the pandemic we’ve just been through.”

Neil Finn has always been an adroit and poetic lyricist, though rarely have his songs addressed political or social issues head-on. That changes on Dreamers Are Waiting , which includes a number of songs that bear the influence of contemporary events.

“To The Island” can be interpreted as a comment on isolationism: “ The world is beyond us, it’s too enormous ,” sings Finn, in harmony with his two 30-something sons. “ But oh, the island is just right .” Of similar disposition is “Playing With Fire”, which appears to portend ecological collapse. “ The next generation’s talking ,” sings Finn. “ We’re behind the wheel / We’re driving straight to the wall .”

“Within the band we’re all pretty much on the same page—no one’s particularly waving a flag of any particular agenda of a political ideology, but we’re pretty much on the same page of recognising when things need to be made fairer or clearer,” says Seymour.

This is the impression conveyed by Dreamers Are Waiting : it’s the sound of band that is conscious, attuned, and empathetic—not just to one another’s needs, but to the ills of the land. For multiple generations of music fans, Crowded House performances have been occasions of enormous uplift. The Dreamers Are Waiting Australian tour promises more of the same.

Crowded House – Dreamers Are Waiting Tour 2022

Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Adelaide, SA

Friday, April 8th, 2022 (sold out) Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne, VIC

Saturday, April 9th, 2022 (sold out) Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne, VIC

Tuesday, April 12th, 2022 Aware Super Theatre, Sydney, NSW

Wednesday, April 13th, 2022 Aware Super Theatre, Sydney, NSW

Saturday, April 16th, 2022 (sold out) A Day on The Green Centennial Vineyards, Bowral, NSW

Tuesday, April 19th, 2022 My State Bank Arena, Hobart, TAS

Thursday, April 21st, 2022 (sold out) Canberra Royal Theatre, Canberra, ACT

Saturday, April 23rd, 2022 A Day on The Green Mt Duneed Estate, Geelong, VIC

Sunday, April 24th, 2022 A Day on The Green Bimbadgen, Hunter Valley, NSW

Friday, April 1st, 2022 (Postponed) Kings Park, Perth, WA

Saturday, April 2nd, 2022 (Postponed) Kings Park, Perth, WA

Sunday, April 3rd, 2022 (Postponed) Kings Park, Perth, WA

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Crowded House Reschedule North American Tour to 2023

It had been pushed back due to their drummer's lower back injury

Crowded House recently announced they would have to postpone their  first North American tour in 12 years due to their drummer’s lower back injury , and now the band has revealed the trek is being pushed to 2023.

The rescheduled “Dreamers Are Waiting” leg now kicks off May 2nd in Vancouver. It includes shows in New York City, Chicago, Toronto, Nashville, Los Angeles, and more before wrapping in Boston on May 30th.

See the full itinerary below. Previously purchased tickets are valid for the rescheduled dates. Tickets are available now for the majority of the shows via Ticketmaster , with additional seats for dates in Los Angeles and Oakland opening up on Friday, September 23rd at 10:00 a.m. local time.

The upcoming tour is in support of Crowded House’s comeback album, 2021’s Dreamers Are Waiting , which marked the band’s first release in 11 years. Frontman Neil Finn guested on Kyle Meredith With… last year to discuss how his time in Fleetwood Mac influenced the making of the album. He also appeared on  The Story Behind the Song to break down the origins of Crowded House’s signature song, “Don’t Dream It’s Over.”

Crowded House 2023 Tour Dates: 05/02 – Vancouver, BC @ Orpheum 05/03 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre 05/04 – Portland, OR @ Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 05/06 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater 05/08 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern 05/09 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern 05/10 – Mesa, AZ @ Mesa Arts Center 05/12 – Denver, CO @ Paramount Theatre 05/14 – Minneapolis, MN @ State Theatre 05/15 – Chicago, IL @ Chicago Theatre 05/17 – Durham, NC @ The Carolina Theatre of Durham-Fletcher Hall 05/19 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium 05/21 – Washington, DC @ The Anthem 05/22 – New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre 05/24 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Met 05/26 – Red Bank, NJ @ Count Basie Center for the Arts 05/27 – Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage 05/30 – Boston, MA @ Wang Theatre at Boch Center

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Crowded House have confirmed a 2024 North American tour in support of their upcoming album, Gravity Stars .

The late summer jaunt kicks off in St. Augustine, FL on August 29th, with additional shows scheduled Atlanta, New York, Niagara Falls, Chicago, Omaha, Vail, and beyond.

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Gravity Stairs is set for release on May 31st via BMG. After initially previewing the album with lead single “Oh Hi,”  the band has now unveiled “Teenage Summer,” which you can stream below.

Frontman Neil Finn also recently appeared on Kyle Meredith With.. . and previewed Gravity Stars . Listen to the full episode here .

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The Moscow Metro Tour is included in most guided tours’ itineraries. Opened in 1935, under Stalin’s regime, the metro was not only meant to solve transport problems, but also was hailed as “a people’s palace”. Every station you will see during your Moscow metro tour looks like a palace room. There are bright paintings, mosaics, stained glass, bronze statues… Our Moscow metro tour includes the most impressive stations best architects and designers worked at - Ploshchad Revolutsii, Mayakovskaya, Komsomolskaya, Kievskaya, Novoslobodskaya and some others.

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The guide will not only help you navigate the metro, but will also provide you with fascinating background tales for the images you see and a history of each station.

And there some stories to be told during the Moscow metro tour! The deepest station - Park Pobedy - is 84 metres under the ground with the world longest escalator of 140 meters. Parts of the so-called Metro-2, a secret strategic system of underground tunnels, was used for its construction.

During the Second World War the metro itself became a strategic asset: it was turned into the city's biggest bomb-shelter and one of the stations even became a library. 217 children were born here in 1941-1942! The metro is the most effective means of transport in the capital.

There are almost 200 stations 196 at the moment and trains run every 90 seconds! The guide of your Moscow metro tour can explain to you how to buy tickets and find your way if you plan to get around by yourself.

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Komsomolskaya metro station looks like a museum. It has vaulted ceilings and baroque decor.

Hidden underground, in the heart of Moscow, are historical and architectural treasures of Russia. These are Soviet-era creations – the metro stations of Moscow.

Our guide Maria introduced these elaborate metro stations as “the palaces for the people.” Built between 1937 and 1955, each station holds its own history and stories. Stalin had the idea of building beautiful underground spaces that the masses could enjoy. They would look like museums, art centers, concert halls, palaces and churches. Each would have a different theme. None would be alike.

The two-hour private tour was with a former Intourist tour guide named Maria. Maria lived in Moscow all her life and through the communist era of 60s to 90s. She has been a tour guide for more than 30 years. Being in her 60s, she moved rather quickly for her age. We traveled and crammed with Maria and other Muscovites on the metro to visit 10 different metro stations.

Arrow showing the direction of metro line 1 and 2

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To Maria, every street, metro and building told a story. I couldn’t keep up with her stories. I don’t remember most of what she said because I was just thrilled being in Moscow.   Added to that, she spilled out so many Russian words and names, which to one who can’t read Cyrillic, sounded so foreign and could be easily forgotten.

The metro tour was the first part of our all day tour of Moscow with Maria. Here are the stations we visited:

1. Komsomolskaya Metro Station  is the most beautiful of them all. Painted yellow and decorated with chandeliers, gold leaves and semi precious stones, the station looks like a stately museum. And possibly decorated like a palace. I saw Komsomolskaya first, before the rest of the stations upon arrival in Moscow by train from St. Petersburg.

2. Revolution Square Metro Station (Ploshchad Revolyutsii) has marble arches and 72 bronze sculptures designed by Alexey Dushkin. The marble arches are flanked by the bronze sculptures. If you look closely you will see passersby touching the bronze dog's nose. Legend has it that good luck comes to those who touch the dog's nose.

Touch the dog's nose for good luck. At the Revolution Square station

Revolution Square Metro Station

3. Arbatskaya Metro Station served as a shelter during the Soviet-era. It is one of the largest and the deepest metro stations in Moscow.

Arbatskaya Metro Station

4. Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Metro Station was built in 1935 and named after the Russian State Library. It is located near the library and has a big mosaic portrait of Lenin and yellow ceramic tiles on the track walls.

Lenin's portrait at the Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Metro Station

5. Kievskaya Metro Station was one of the first to be completed in Moscow. Named after the capital city of Ukraine by Kiev-born, Nikita Khruschev, Stalin's successor.

Kievskaya Metro Station

6. Novoslobodskaya Metro Station  was built in 1952. It has 32 stained glass murals with brass borders.

Novoslobodskaya metro station

7. Kurskaya Metro Station was one of the first few to be built in Moscow in 1938. It has ceiling panels and artwork showing Soviet leadership, Soviet lifestyle and political power. It has a dome with patriotic slogans decorated with red stars representing the Soviet's World War II Hall of Fame. Kurskaya Metro Station is a must-visit station in Moscow.

Ceiling panel and artworks at Kurskaya Metro Station

8. Mayakovskaya Metro Station built in 1938. It was named after Russian poet Vladmir Mayakovsky. This is one of the most beautiful metro stations in the world with 34 mosaics painted by Alexander Deyneka.

Mayakovskaya station

One of the over 30 ceiling mosaics in Mayakovskaya metro station

9. Belorusskaya Metro Station is named after the people of Belarus. In the picture below, there are statues of 3 members of the Partisan Resistance in Belarus during World War II. The statues were sculpted by Sergei Orlov, S. Rabinovich and I. Slonim.

10. Teatralnaya Metro Station (Theatre Metro Station) is located near the Bolshoi Theatre.

Teatralnaya Metro Station decorated with porcelain figures .

Taking the metro's escalator at the end of the tour with Maria the tour guide.

Have you visited the Moscow Metro? Leave your comment below.

January 15, 2017 at 8:17 am

An excellent read! Thanks for much for sharing the Russian metro system with us. We're heading to Moscow in April and exploring the metro stations were on our list and after reading your post, I'm even more excited to go visit them. Thanks again 🙂

December 6, 2017 at 10:45 pm

Hi, do you remember which tour company you contacted for this tour?

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Introduction of moscow subway system (metro).

Nowadays the Moscow Metro has 12 lines, light subway and monorail. All stations are unique and beautiful in their own way. Unfortunately, in order to visit them all, you need to spend many days. I invite guests to visit the ones that have the greatest cultural and historical interest from my point of view. Among them are the Revolution Square, Arbatskaya, Kievskaya (Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line № 3); Kievskaya, Belarusskaya, Novoslobodskaya, Komsomolskaya (the Ring line number 5). Let us dwell a bit on each.

Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line

Subway station "revolution square".

Most recently - in the year 2008-2010 – the Eastern lobby was renovated. Because of the terrorist attacks in the Moscow subway that took place several hours before the planned opening of the East lobby after renovation, the solemn part of the event was canceled.

Subway station Arbatskaya

Subway Arbatskaya is located on the same subway line as the station "Revolution Square." It was founded in 1953. It received the name in honor of the Arbat Street. It has one ground lobby (Western). Initially, the lobby was in a separate building, but the new building of the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense started, the lobby appeared to be in its atrium. The old exits were bricked up; a new entrance was built into the building of General Staff of the street Vozdvizhenka. There is a huge frame with a missing portrait in the ground lobby - until mid-1950 there was a portrait of Stalin. According to some reports, it survived, but closed with plaster.

The lobby was restored and partially reconstructed in 2007-2008.

The depth of the station is 41 meters.

Pylons are finished with red marble at the bottom, decorated with bouquets of flowers made from ceramics. The floor is laid out with gray granite. The walls lined with glazed ceramic tiles, white top and black bottom. The station hall is illuminated by massive bronze chandeliers in the form of rings.

Subway station Kievskaya

There are several subway stations "Kievskaya" in Moscow, located on different branches. This name is quite popular. It comes from the capital of Ukraine - one of Russia's nearest neighbors - the city of Kiev. The name is fully consistent with the idea of the subway station. The interior the station devoted to Soviet Ukraine and the reunification of Ukraine and Russia. The station is decorated with a large number of paintings .Twenty four murals depicting workers of Soviet Ukraine are placed on the arch above the pylons. The wall from the side of platform also contains frescos, mainly with images of fantastic plants. Pylons are decorated with light marble and additionally decorated with colorful ceramic cornice. The butt of the station has a large mosaic, depicting festivities to celebrate the 300 anniversary of the reunification of Ukraine and Russia.

Opened in 1953, this subway station for a long time was the final (1953-2003).

The station has one lobby, combined with the station ring line and located in the building of the Kievskaya railway station. The diameter of the central hall station is 9.5 m, the diameter of side one is 8.5 m. The depth of the station is 38 meters.

= Ring Line Subway =

It opened in 1954. The station received its name after the Kiev station, and locked the Ring line. During the construction of the station many projects were proposed, but the victory in the competition won the Kiev architects who made the construction of the station. It is the only station of the Ring Line which is not located in the Central Administrative District of Moscow.

The station has a pylon structure. Eighteen pylons are decorated with mosaic panels of glazes, decorated on the theme of Ukrainian history and friendship between the Ukrainian and Russian peoples, which started in the mid-17 century.

On the front wall of the central hall of the station a large panel with molding in the form of flags and a mosaic portrait of Lenin in the center are located. There are lines of the Soviet national anthem around the portrait, and under the portrait - the words of Lenin. One of the ways out of the station was designed by French architects modeled on the Paris Subway in 2006.

At one of the mosaics – “The Struggle for Soviet power in Ukraine "- modern passengers observe a mobile phone and PDA in the hand of one of the guerrillas, and on his knees - a laptop. In fact, he uses a field telephone, which was really a heavy thing (guerrillas holds it in two hands), and thing that people see a laptop is the lid of a box with a telephone. However, these phones have begun to produce only in the second half of the 20-ies of XX century. We must assume that the mosaic depicts a foreign field telephone transmitter.

Subway station Belorusskaya

The founded of the station was in 1952. It received the name after the Belarusian railway station nearby. The station has two ground-based lobbies. The Western one goes to Tverskaya  Zastava. It is decorated with beautiful carvings. The Eastern one leads to Butyrskiy shaft and Forest Street. The Eastern lobby is known for its majolica panels.

The station Belorusskaya is located at a depth of 42.5 m below ground. The diameter of the central hall is 9.5 meters.

Pylons are faced with light marble. The walls lined with white ceramic tiles, the floor is covered with ceramic tiles, gray, white and red colors. Lamps placed on pylons, in the form of vases made of glass and marble. The theme of decoration is economy and culture of Belarus. Decorative pattern on the floor repeats the theme of traditional Belarusian embroidery. Decorations of the ceiling consist of stucco decorations and 12 mosaic panels depicting the life of the Belarusian people.

Subway station Novoslobodskaya

Built in 1952, Subway station Novoslobodskaya got its name from the eponymous street:  the station is located at the very beginning of it.

Novoslobodskaya is pylon station of deep foundation (its depth is 40 m) with three arches.

Exit to the street is through the ground lobby with column portico, located on Novoslobodskaya Street lined with gray marble. Pylons of the underground station are faced with marble from the Urals. Thirty two spectacularly illuminated stained-glasses, placed inside the pylon and bordered by steel and gilt brass are splendid decoration of the station. A remarkable mosaic "World Peace" is located at the end of the central hall. The picture depicts a happy mother with a baby in her arms; it was the face of Stalin at the picture: the child gave a hand to him. But in times of Khrushchev the face of the former leader of USSR was removed from the panel. The walls are lined with bright marble; floor is covered with white and black granite slabs, placed in a checkerboard pattern.

Subway station Komsomolskaya

The station was built in 1952 and named in honor of the Komsomolskaya Square, which is situated nearby.

This subway station is the station of the deep bedding. Its depth is 37 meters. The station has column and three- arched design. Cast iron decoration is used in the construction, monolithic slab used as a tray for a collapsible finishing. The length of the boarding hall is 190 meters; width of it is 10 meters. There are 68 octagonal columns at station.

The main theme of the interior of the station is the fighting of the Russian people for their independence. The ceiling is decorated with eight station mosaic mural made from glazes and precious stones. Six of them represent the Alexander Nevsky, Dmitry Donskoy, Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky, Alexander Suvorov and Mikhail Kutuzov, the Soviet soldiers and officers at the walls of the Reichstag.

 Two other panels, depicting Stalin ("Victory Parade" and "Presentation of the Guards Banner"), were replaced after the dethronement of Stalin's personality cult in 1963. New panels depict Lenin's speech in front of the Red Guards and the Motherland on the background of the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower.

The yellow ceiling is decorated with mosaic and moldings. The hall is illuminated by massive chandeliers hanging between the panels; platforms are illuminated with smaller chandeliers. The columns are decorated with marble capitals and trimmed with light marble, as well as the wall station. The floor is laid with pink granite. There is a bust of Lenin at the end of the hall. At the opposite end of the escalator is a large Florentine mosaic of the Order of Victory with red banners on the background. The ground lobby of the station is decorated with bas-reliefs.

In conclusion...

Each of the stations of the Moscow subway is attractive and interesting in its own way. Each has its own long and fascinating history and is beautifully decorated. The Moscow subway is a whole world, which can be talking about for hours. I suggest you short - no more than one hour and a half - and a fascinating journey through the world of the Moscow subway. The pleasure is guaranteed!

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