From Bolshoi Theatre to stn for train to St Petersburg

Metro station Ohotniy Ryad is next to Boshoi and on the same metro line as Komsomolskaya where Leningradskiy vokzal situated. Knowing what you do, I suppose 15-30 minutes will be enough to get from theatre to station.

...the Napoleon hostel is particularly well located at ul Ilinka, 6 minutes from Red Square...

Don't be late for the Ballet. They won't let you in.

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Metro station Ohotniy Ryad is next to Boshoi and on the same metro line as Komsomolskaya where Leningradskiy vokzal situated. Knowing what you do, I suppose 15-30 minutes will be enough to get from theatre to station.

I'd put 45 mins before the train departure. 30 mins is too risky.

Drop your bags at the train station earlier in the day so that you don't have to pick them up or bring them to the opera. Also be sure that the left luggage at which you leave your baggage will be open when you return.

Another reason to drop off your luggage is to learn something of the layout of the metro and train station so you know where you need to go as it can be confusing.

Ruth

Thx. So even if it takes 45 mins I can do it.

Ruth - smart idea. Now all I have to do is work out how to spend a day in Moscow without luggage and pitch up at the Bolshoi wearing the same clothes and looking reasonably respectable.

Clearly I won't be able to frock up. If I turn up in jeans will I be shown the door?

You know, although I have seen the Kirov in London twice, the Bolshoi don't tour as much, and I've only seen them once before, in 1967, in Liverpool of all places. So this is going to be a big occasion for me.

Irrelevant of course - just sharing in case any other dance fans can empathise.

I would try not to show up in jeans (really they are THE most impractical traveling clothing as they take terribly long to dry and in many countries driers are unavailable or unknown) but if that is all you have, then you won't be shown the door. You might just feel a bit self conscious.

Personally a broomstick skirt or other lightweight travel skirt in your tote bag would be a much wiser option.

Ruth

BTW there are three stations at the same point, Teatralnaya on the green line (which is named for the Bolshoi theater), Okhotny Ryad on the red line and Ploshchad Revolustii on the dark blue line. All three make free connections but the direct entrances are different. Again, I would scope out the area earlier in the day.

Ruth

Thanks. You' ll think I'm a nutcase but still trying to work this out. And seems to me that what I need to do is:

Take main bag to Leningrad station first thing and get my bearings. Check in at a hostel with a carrier bag containing shower stuff and the best I can manage re smart pants and heels. Next go to theatre and collect ticket - again scope it out as Ruth suggests.

Now, final question on this subject, I promise. I won't have time to return to the hostel after the performance AND catch the train, so ... will the theatre allow a carrier bag or small daypack to be taken into the auditorium? If not, is there a cloakroom where you can leave such things?

Otherwise I guess I'll be going unwashed and if not in denin jeans, then cord jeans.

Ruth - hear what you are saying about jeans. Had never travelled with a pair until my last trip. But I only do pants, and find it horrendously difficult to find any sort of pants off the rail that fit. So it's less a question of what to take, more a question of what do I have at all.

Happy travels all, and thx for answering my dumb questions.