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Like Rudyard Kipling's portrayal of the trains of India in Kim, where the train of the great British Empire becomes an Indian train, inhabited by Sikhs, Muslims, Sipoys, and Hindus speaking their languages and making it their train through dialogue and conversation, the Jews of the region made the Russian train into a Jewish train through their conversations, their fights, their gossip. The car would be full of Jewish merchants, Jews starting their transatlantic passage to America, Jewish horse traders, and even Jewish horse thieves. The third-class train car was the place where Jews from the shtetls and cities of Eastern Europe would, typically, meet, conduct business, speak Yiddish, and talk about their families. Clearly the last thing the Tsar had in mind was that the great Russian train system would become for many Jewish writers something that they conceived of as Jewish rather than Russian. Petersburg and Moscow, move soldiers to the front, and bring merchants around the country. It would transport the gentry between St. The tale is an unlikely one, but it points to how the railroad of Russia was a tsarist railroad.
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The tale says that, when the train system was built, it included that ridge. However, the line he drew inadvertently included the ridge of his thumb. As the apocryphal story goes, in the 1840s when Tsar Nicholas I decided to develop the railroad in Russia, he placed his hand on a map and traced the line it would follow along the edge of his hand.