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Sanlorenzo sd90 #119.

2023 | €7.950.000, - VAT not paid

Sanlorenzo SD96 #131

2023 | €10.880.600, - VAT not paid

Sanlorenzo SD96 #95

2021 | €8.950.000, - VAT paid

Sanlorenzo SL106A #820

2023 | €11.350.000, - VAT not paid

Sanlorenzo SL120A #778

2022 | €15.000.000, - VAT not paid

Sanlorenzo SL78 #721

2021 | €4.295.000, - VAT paid

Sanlorenzo SL86 #799

2024 | €6.900.000, - VAT not paid

Sanlorenzo SL88 #541

2009 | €2.690.000, - VAT paid

Sanlorenzo SL90A #813

2023 | €8.850.280, - VAT not paid

Sanlorenzo SL96 #639

2017 | €5.900.000, - VAT not paid

Sanlorenzo SP92 #10

2024 | Price on request

Sanlorenzo SX76 #16

2019 | €3.950.000, - VAT paid

Sanlorenzo SX88 #85

2022 | €6.750.000, - VAT not paid

Prestige 420 Flybridge #130

2023 | €849.000, - VAT paid

Prestige 420S #181

2024 | €740.281, - VAT not paid

Prestige 460 flybridge #100

2019 | €725.000, - VAT paid

Prestige 460 flybridge #147

2020 | €770.000, - VAT paid

Prestige 520 Flybridge #264

2023 | €1.395.000, - VAT paid

Prestige 520 Flybridge #307

2023 | €1.337.190, - VAT not paid

Prestige 520 flybridge #317

2023 | €1.313.711, - VAT not paid

Prestige 590 flybridge #129

2024 | €1.818.920, - VAT not paid

Prestige 590 Flybridge #64

2021 | €1.495.000, - VAT paid

Prestige 590 Flybridge #97

2022 | €1.795.000, - VAT paid

Prestige 630 Flybridge #04

2017 | €1.380.000, - VAT paid

Prestige F4 #03

2024 | €1.307.665, - VAT not paid

Prestige M48 #04

2023 | €1.404.433, - VAT not paid

Prestige M8

Prestige x60 flybridge #08.

2023 | €2.261.749, - VAT not paid

Sacs Rebel 47

2024 | €1.140.300, - VAT not paid

Sacs Rebel 50

2024 | €2.193.500, - VAT not paid

Sacs Strider 10 #50

2019 | €159.000, - VAT not paid

Sacs Strider 11 #172

2022 | €345.000, - VAT paid

Sacs Strider 11 Open back #195

2023 | €385.000, - VAT not paid

SACS Strider 13 #65

2016 | €295.000, - VAT paid

Sacs Strider 900 #72

2022 | €149.000, - VAT not paid

Sacs Strider 900 #89

2023 | €179.800, - VAT not paid

Aguti M/Y Aguti

2009 | €2.395.000, - VAT not paid

Apreamare Aperto 8 Tender

1995 | €87.500, - VAT paid

Axopar 28 Cabin

2018 | €119.000, - VAT paid

Azimut 75 Flybridge, first launched 2013, fin stabilized

2008 | €1.250.000, - VAT paid

Azimut Grande 35 M/Y HEED

2019 | €10.500.000, - VAT not paid

BLUEGAME BG42 #19

2020 | €875.000, - VAT paid

Bluegame BG42 #33

2022 | €895.000, - VAT not paid

Bluegame BG42 #42

2023 | €999.000, - VAT not paid

Bluegame BG54

2022 | €1.785.000, - VAT not paid

Bluegame BG62

2020 | €1.985.000, - VAT paid

Bluegame BG72/BG74

2024 | €4.505.364, - VAT not paid

Bluegame BGX60 #26

2024 | €3.451.360, - VAT not paid

Bluegame BGX70 #01

2019 | €3.685.000, - VAT paid

Bluegame BGX70 #02

2020 | €3.685.000, - VAT not paid

Brandaris Barkas 850

2009 | €149.000, - VAT paid

Canados Gladiator 493 Grand

2021 | €899.000, - VAT not paid

Capelli Tempest 750 Sport

2022 | €139.000, - VAT paid

Cara M/Y Kara

2002 | €295.000, - VAT paid

Chris Craft 25 Corsair

2007 | €79.500, - VAT paid

Custom Line Navetta 30 #08

2022 | €8.500.000, - VAT not paid

2019 | €198.000, - VAT not paid

Fairline 42 Squadron #26

2012 | €445.000, - VAT paid

Fairline Targa 43 #527

2004 | €219.500, - VAT paid

Ferretti 530

2003 | €395.000, - VAT paid

Fjord 40 Open

2016 | €380.000, - VAT paid

Globemaster 50 LRX

2023 | €1.795.000, - VAT paid

Goldfish 28 Bullet

2021 | €159.000, - VAT paid

ISA 120 M/Y Whispering Angel

2008 | €4.500.000, - VAT paid

Jeanneau Leader 46

2017 | €495.000, - VAT paid

Jeanneau NC9

2019 | €195.000, - VAT paid

Lengers Lounge 60

2015 | €1.485.000, - VAT paid

1988 | €195.000, - VAT paid

Nimbus 380 #143

2006 | €199.000, - VAT paid

Numarine 62 Flybridge

2017 | €1.150.000, - VAT not paid

Numarine 70

2014 | €995.000, - VAT not paid

Oceanline ONE BLUE

2008 | €6.000.000, - VAT paid

Princess 58 #47

2008 | €695.000, - VAT paid

Princess 85 #12

2009 | €2.250.000, - VAT paid

Princess R35

2020 | €545.000, - VAT not paid

Princess S65

2019 | €1.950.000, - VAT not paid

Princess V48

2016 | €645.000, - VAT paid

Princess V52

2012 | €625.000, - VAT paid

Riva 48 Dolceriva #03

2020 | €1.595.000, - VAT paid

Riva 52 Rivale

2009 | €690.000, - VAT paid

Riva 56 Sportriva

2008 | €680.000, - VAT paid

Riva 60 Bahamas

1993 | €249.000, - VAT paid

Riva 63 Vertigo #27

2007 | €945.000, - VAT paid

Riva 92 Duchessa

2010 | €2.950.000, - VAT paid

Riva Corsaro 100

2018 | €7.500.000, - VAT paid

Riva Rivarama 44 #116

2014 | €695.000, - VAT paid

Riva Super Ego 68

2008 | €1.175.000, - VAT not paid

RIVA VIRTUS 63

2011 | Price on request

Sciallino 45 Flybridge #31

2008 | €289.000, - VAT paid

Sunseeker Manhattan 68

2022 | €2.785.000, - VAT not paid

Sunseeker Predator 57

2016 | €1.075.000, - VAT paid

Van der Heijden 58

2010 | €595.000, - VAT paid

Van der Heijden Exclusive deluxe 1600

2015 | €749.000, - VAT paid

Vanquish VQ45 T TOP

2023 | €1.395.000, - VAT not paid

Vripack Trawler #12 Braveheart

2011 | €1.150.000, - VAT not paid

Wajer 55 #12

2018 | Price on request

Wally POWER 55

2010 | €1.195.000, - VAT paid

Zeelander Z44

2009 | €499.000, - VAT paid

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Der Name Princess ist zum Synonym für feinstes Luxus-Motoryacht-Design, hochwertige Yachtherstellung und besten Kundendienst und Support für alle Princess-Yachtbesitzer geworden. Unabhängig von der Größe wird wahrscheinlich jedes Boot Ihre Erwartungen an ein Boot in seiner Klasse übertreffen. Princess-Yachten sind auf Ihre speziellen Anforderungen zugeschnitten und nur mit den allerbesten Komponenten ausgestattet. Sie setzen die höchsten Standards in Bezug auf Luxus und Leistung von Motoryachten.

Auf dem Wasser sind Princess-Yachten sofort für ihre anmutige Linienführung und zeitlose, klassische Eleganz erkennbar, die nie aus der Mode gehen wird. Saubere, übersichtliche Linien und ein muskulöser, tiefer V-Rumpf verleihen Princess-Yachten eine unbestreitbare Präsenz, die in Yachthäfen auf der ganzen Welt sofort erkennbar ist.

Beim Kauf einer Luxusyacht können Sie auf die Marke und das Team vertrauen, die dafür sorgen, dass Ihre Bedürfnisse und Wünsche nicht nur erfüllt, sondern übertroffen werden. Der Name und der Ruf von Princess bedeuten, dass Sie nicht enttäuscht werden.

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Wir bieten das Ultimative an unglaublich luxuriösen, wunderschön gefertigten Yachten, Superyachten und Megayachten. Mit einer solch großen Auswahl an Luxusyachten zum Verkauf wissen wir bei Princess Motor Yacht Sales voll und ganz zu schätzen, dass der Yachtkauf zwar ein Nervenkitzel ist, aber auch eine große Entscheidung – etwas, das Sie auf Anhieb richtig machen möchten. Hier ist unser Ratgeber für gesunden Menschenverstand.

Sie sind nicht allein – Wir helfen Ihnen, eine Yacht mit Vertrauen zu kaufen

Natürlich kennen wir die Yachtwelt in- und auswendig. Es ist das, was wir tun. Gleichzeitig ist uns bewusst, dass nur sehr wenige unserer Kunden über das erforderliche technische Wissen verfügen, um eine teure und wichtige Entscheidung zu treffen, die auch sachkundig ist.

Bei der Überlegung, neue Luxusyachten zu verkaufen, gibt es eine verwirrende Wahl, weshalb wir Sie während des gesamten Entscheidungsprozesses unterstützen. Wir begleiten Sie von Anfang bis Ende. Wir geben Ihnen die Informationen, die Sie benötigen, um eine kluge Entscheidung zu treffen. Wir erklären die Technologie in der Sprache, die Sie verstehen werden, und weil unsere Begeisterung für diese bemerkenswerten Schiffe durchscheint, werden Sie den Prozess als echtes Vergnügen empfinden.

Es ist gut zu wissen, dass wir niemals harte Verkaufstaktiken anwenden. Nach unserer Erfahrung besteht dazu kein Grund – wir behandeln Sie mit dem gebührenden Respekt und der gebotenen Rücksichtnahme, die Sie verdienen. So haben Sie genügend Zeit und Raum, um jede neue Yacht-Kaufoption sorgfältig und mit allen Details zu prüfen.

Unsere Kunden, die Yachten kaufen, profitieren von Gesprächen mit erfahrenen Fachleuten in unserem Team, Experten, die gerne so viel Zeit mit Ihnen verbringen, wie Sie möchten, Fragen beantworten, Unterstützung und Anleitung bieten und sicherstellen, dass das von Ihnen gewählte Luxus-Motoryachtmodell genau Ihren Wünschen und Bedürfnissen entspricht: die optimale Größe, Geschwindigkeit, Layout, Innenraum, Motor, was auch immer Sie möchten. Die Idee dabei ist, alle Ihre Anforderungen zu erfüllen, damit Sie perfekt und rundum glücklich sind.

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EUR 12,800,000

• Length: 49.9m (163.7ft)
• Guests: 9 guests in 4 cabins
• Built: 2012 (refitted 2019)

EUR 8,900,000† (EU VAT paid)

• Guests: 12 guests in 5 cabins
• Built: 2009

EUR 8,900,000

• Guests: 10 guests in 5 cabins
• Built: 2007 (refitted 2015)

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• Built: 2000 (refitted 2019)

EUR 24,760,000 (EU VAT paid)

• Length: 46.7m (153.2ft)
• Built: 2012

USD 9,100,000

• Length: 46.3m (151.9ft)
• Guests: 10 guests in 4 cabins
• Built: 1991 (refitted 2023)
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USD 14,950,000

• Length: 44.8m (147ft)
• Built: 2002 (refitted 2018)
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USD 14,500,000 (US duty paid)

• Length: 44.6m (146.3ft)
• Guests: 12 guests in 6 cabins
• Built: 2002 (refitted 2021)
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USD 24,499,000

• Length: 43.9m (144ft)
• Guests: 11 guests in 5 cabins
• Built: 2016
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EUR 8,250,000† (EU VAT paid)

• Guests: 6 guests in 3 cabins
• Built: 1994 (refitted 2019)
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DIE KUNST, DAS MEER ZU LIEBEN

Zeitlose Schönheit zu schaffen, ist das Ziel der Handwerkskunst die hinter jeder Prestige-Yacht steht und eine Kunst, die über Jahrzehnte auf See perfektioniert wurde. Der international anerkannte Luxusyachtbauer kombiniert französisches Know-how und italienisches Design des Garroni Design Studios und strebt danach, die Definition von La Dolce Vita neu zu definieren – und das gelingt zweifellos herausragend.

Als weltweiter Marktführer für Luxus-Motoryachten zwischen 40 und 60 Fuß bietet die Prestige-Linie von Flybridge- und Sport-Coupé-Motoryachten ein einwandfreies Gleichgewicht zwischen Preis und Qualität. Ein Prestige ist gleichbedeutend mit einfacher Manövrierfähigkeit und mit viel Liebe zum Detail: unter sorgfältiger Berücksichtigung der Materialien für eine außergewöhnliche Ausführung und Verarbeitung.

Großzügige, helle Innenräume und viel Stauraum sowie eine vollständige Steuerstation und L-förmige Sitzgruppe kennzeichnen die Flybridge-Flotte. Eine Prestige Flybridge wurde für ultimativen Komfort entworfen und ist ein zweites Zuhause auf dem offenem Meer. Ein großes Schiebedach, kraftvolle Rümpfe und klare Linien zeichnen die leistungsstarke Prestige Sport-Coupé Flotte aus. Dennoch behalten sie die Geräumigkeit, Eleganz und gemütliche Raffinesse der Marke bei und können an Ihre Bedürfnisse angepasst werden. Die größeren, dynamischen Sportsfly-Modelle verfügen über eine großzügige Flybridge hinter einem unglaublich großen Schiebedach über dem Salon und bieten den Gästen viel Platz zum Genießen.

Als Prestige-Händler für Benelux und Deutschland und zum vierten Mal in Folge Gewinner des Preises „Bester Yachthändler Nordeuropas“ unterstützen wir Sie gerne bei Ihrer Reise zum Kauf einer Prestige Yacht.

Mit einem beispiellosen Know-how, das wir seit 50 Jahren an der Spitze der Luxusyachtbranche gesammelt haben, ist und bleibt die Bereitstellung eines außergewöhnlichen persönlichen Service unsere Hauptpriorität. Dies ist der Grund, warum ein erster Kauf oder auch Verkauf mit Lengers zu einer dauerhaften Bindung wird.

Fühlen Sie sich auf dem Meer zu Hause und genießen Sie das „Savoir-vivre“ auf Ihrer Prestige-Yacht. Entdecken Sie unsere leistungsstarke Sport-Coupé-Flotte und unsere eleganten Flybridge-Sortimente und stellen Sie sich vor, wie Sie das Meer in absoluter Freiheit erkunden werden.

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Preis ab €551.300 - exkl. MwSt

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Preis ab €725.200 - exkl. MwSt

Prestige 460S

Preis ab €693.300 - exkl. MwSt

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Preis ab €951.900 - exkl. MwSt

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Preis ab €923.800 - exkl. MwSt

Prestige 590 flybridge

Preis ab €1.236.500 - exkl. MwSt

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Preis ab €2.497.400 - exkl. MwSt

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2023 | Preis ab €1.040.100 - exkl. MwSt

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2023 | Preis ab €1.817.200 - exkl. MwSt

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Preis ab €3.123.000 - exkl. MwSt

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Report 11 Aug 2013

Report: men’s 100m final – moscow 2013.

Usain Bolt after winning the 100m at the IAAF World Championships Moscow 2013 (© Getty Images)

For once Usain Bolt had no need to call down the thunder from the sky. Just before the start of the men’s 100m final, a thunderstorm brought the special effects in for him.

Indeed, at the start, Bolt mimed holding up an umbrella as the rain tumbled down. It was just pantomime – as it turned out, Usain Bolt needed no protection, not from the weather, not from anyone else as he raced to his second World Championships gold medal at 100m.

Bolt ran down the wet Luzhniki Stadium track in 9.77 seconds. It was a Russian all-comers’ record, his season’s best but, more importantly, a metre better than anyone else could throw at him. Justin Gatlin took second place in 9.85 while Nesta Carter made it two medals for Jamaica by finishing third in 9.95.

Bolt just might like the rain. The weather was nowhere near as dire, but it was reminiscent of his 2009 performance in Lausanne where he ran 19.59 seconds for 200 metres. Wet or dry, he is hard to beat.

The first five broke 10 seconds, Kemar Bailey-Cole and Nickel Ashmeade – both 9.98 – making it four in the first five for Jamaica. Seventh-placed Christophe Lemaitre could have been the sixth had he not suffered what appeared to be a foot injury 10 metres before the line. Mike Rodgers passed him as he hopped across the line.

James Dasaolu, who showed his potential with a 9.91 in the semis at the UK Championships and 9.97 in the semi-finals here in Moscow, finished last but confirmed his potential by making the final.

It was vintage Bolt. His start was not perfect, just pretty good. Only Gatlin alongside him and the fast-starting Carter, two lanes to his outside, led him. Neither enjoyed the sort of advantage to put Bolt under pressure.

If Bolt is behind you at 50 metres, he will probably catch you. If he is ahead, forget it. He looked to have a little in reserve as he relaxed and flowed through to the finish line. Gatlin, with a win over Bolt this season at the Rome IAAF Diamond League meeting, was obviously the man who might beat him, but a relaxed Bolt in the final stages is never going to be beaten.

Bolt put behind him the nightmare false-start in the final in Daegu two years ago which saw him default his title to teammate Yohan Blake. Blake was absent injured from Moscow, but there is little doubt the result would have been the same had he been here.

Since he broke through to win the Beijing 2008 Olympic title, Bolt now has eight of the nine global sprint titles in which he has competed. Beijing and Berlin brought sprint doubles with all four races won in World record times; in Daegu he bounced back from his 100m disaster to win the 200m; London brought a second Olympic double and it is hard to see how he can be stopped from winning a second World double in Moscow.

He has now extended his span of domination in the 100m to five years, a match for pretty well any other sprinter in history. Carl Lewis did better in one aspect, winning every global title at 100m from the first World Championships in Helsinki in 1983 through to Tokyo in 1991, but Bolt has an edge for impact. His 9.69 in Beijing and 9.58 in Berlin took the event to a new dimension.

Such considerations hardly matter now. Bolt remains firmly on top of the world 100m scene. Although the rain stopped soon after the race concluded, he had earned the right to go home singing.

Len Johnson for the IAAF

2018 Primetime Emmy & James Beard Award Winner

In Transit: Notes from the Underground

Jun 06 2018.

Spend some time in one of Moscow’s finest museums.

Subterranean commuting might not be anyone’s idea of a good time, but even in a city packing the war-games treasures and priceless bejeweled eggs of the Kremlin Armoury and the colossal Soviet pavilions of the VDNKh , the Metro holds up as one of Moscow’s finest museums. Just avoid rush hour.

The Metro is stunning and provides an unrivaled insight into the city’s psyche, past and present, but it also happens to be the best way to get around. Moscow has Uber, and the Russian version called Yandex Taxi , but also some nasty traffic. Metro trains come around every 90 seconds or so, at a more than 99 percent on-time rate. It’s also reasonably priced, with a single ride at 55 cents (and cheaper in bulk). From history to tickets to rules — official and not — here’s what you need to know to get started.

A Brief Introduction Buying Tickets Know Before You Go (Down) Rules An Easy Tour

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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