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Here are some photos from Common Sense and Whiskey, chapter 5, the Trans-Siberian Railroad. You can buy professional prints of most of these photos in the Russia Gallery. You can buy Common Sense and Whiskey on Amazon.com, or by clicking here.
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We flew from the U.S. through Frankfurt to here, Ekaterinburg, Russia, to start the train trip. This is the Ekaterinburg, or "E-kat," skyline from the Atrium Palace hotel, the five star hotel with Russian characteristics. Notice there's no sign of a mountain range, here beside the Urals.
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The modest memorial at the site of the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg. The family of deposed Czar Nicholas was shot while holed up at the house during the revolution, in July 1918. In 1977, local Sverdlovsk (now "E-kat") party boss Boris Yeltsin ordered the Ipatiev House destroyed.
Here's the station at Novosibirsk, at 1.6 million the largest city in Siberia. Each carriage had its own provodnitsa. This was a carriage next to ours, so this provodnitsa isn't Lydia Ivanova.
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"Must’ve been 68 or 70 degrees, perfect air, as we all clambered out to stretch. They sold tons of some particular flayed and dried fish. The good people of Barabinsk still looked thoroughly European, not a bit Asian."
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