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    Here’s how the luxurious train of Nicholas II looked inside (PHOTOS)

    Gateway to Russia
    Mar 22 2022
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    Here’s how the luxurious train of Nicholas II looked inside (PHOTOS)
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    The last Russian emperor enjoyed all the technical progress of his age, and traveling in his own train car was certainly one of his greatest privileges. 

    The imperial Romanov family was always first to test the railroads. Back in 1837, Emperor Nicholas I eagerly took a ride on Russia’s first-ever railway that ran from St. Petersburg to Tsarskoye Selo. Since that time, the imperial family would always travel on trains with great pleasure, and they always had their own train car or even several of them. 

    The Romanovs often traveled from St. Petersburg to Moscow and back, as well as abroad. In the 1880s, Russia’s rail system became very extensive across the empire and the imperial family frequently traveled, especially to Crimea and other regions of the empire. 

    In 1888, the train carrying Alexander III and the imperial family crashed in a horrible accident. Fortunately, the members of the imperial family were unharmed. The mighty Emperor, just like Atlas, held the carriage ceiling on his shoulders, just long enough for his wife and kids to get out of the wrecked train. 

    In the late 1890s, a brand new train was built for the imperial family. It was a 10-car train that included a bedroom for the Emperor and Empress, a reception room, office, kitchen, dining room, the children's room, rooms for family members, servants, railroad workers, luggage room, and a specially equipped prayer room.

    Emperor Nicholas II was the first and the last tsar to use the train. Here are some extraordinary photos of this ‘palace on wheels’. 

    The train car’s appearance from the outside

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    The space between the wagons

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    A dynamo to supply electrical lighting for the train

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    Princess Anastasia in the train

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    All the living rooms were decorated according to the latest fashion using red polished wood, silver, leather and the finest French materials

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    Inside one of the train cars

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    The corridor of the train car with servants’ bedrooms

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    The walls and furniture were upholstered in the English style with floral ornaments.

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    The train inspector’s office and bedroom

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    Service car

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    Rooms for female (L) and male entourage

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    Imperial office’s window (L), and the doors of the Emperor’s and Empress’ offices

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    His Majesty’s office

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    Her Majesty’s office

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    Reception room

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    A fine lady’s room 

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    First room for the Grand Dukes

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    Second room for the Grand Dukes

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    Third room for the Grand Dukes

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    Room for the Tsar’s daughter, Princess Olga

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    Kitchen

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    Dining room

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    The Tsar’s dining with generals

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    Fragment of the dining room

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    Bathroom

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    Toilet

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    Servants who worked on the Emperor’s train

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    Furniture for the ‘palace on wheels’ 

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    Fragment of the reception room 

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    Nicholas II with wife, Empress Alexandra, and their son, Prince Alexey, in the train 

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    Nicholas II on his way to the World War I front 

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