The Saint Petersburg to Moscow railway runs for 649.7 kilometers through four oblasts: Leningrad, Novgorod, Tver and Moscow. It is a major traffic artery in the north-west region of Russia, operated b
The Sapsan high speed train on the way from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
Wood-burning locomotive on the Nikolaev railway, c. 1858
Leningradsky railway station (1851) in Moscow, the southern terminus of the line
New Verebinsky Bridge, opened in 2001 to replace the bypass
Nicholas I of Russia
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Nicholas I was Emperor of Russia, King of Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland from 1825 to 1855. He was the third son of Paul I and younger brother of his predecessor, Alexander I. Nicholas's 29-year re
Saint Petersburg–Moscow railway
…a major traffic artery in the north-west region of Russia, operated by the October Railway subdivision of Russian Railways. On 1 February 1842, Tsar Nicholas I issued a ukase ordering the railway's construction. The railway was a pet project of Pavel Melnikov (1804–1880), an engineer and administrator who…
Portrait, c. 1852
Portrait of Grand Duke Nicholas Pavlovich (c. 1808), by anonymous painter after Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, located in the Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg
Parade in Potsdam in 1817 by Franz Krüger. A painting commemorating his visit to Berlin to marry Princess Charlotte of Prussia
Nicholas I "Family Ruble" (1836) depicting the Tsar on the obverse and his family on the reverse: Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna (center) surrounded by Alexander II as Tsarevich, Maria, Olga, Nicholas, Michael, Konstantin, and Alexandra