ON THE TSARSKOYE SELO RAILWAY

Abstract

The inauguration of the first railway in Russia between St.Petersburg and Tsarskoye Selo took place 175 years ago, on October, 30, 1837. This date is commemorated by a set of short articles and extracts prepared with the help of the librarians of Moscow State University of Railway Engineering (MIIT). The MIIT library contains many journal and newspaper articles on the history of Russian railways and the first part of the review is based on the speech of V. Troitsky pronounced in 1886 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the national railways and dedicated to Franz Anton Ritter von Gerstner, one of those who engineered the first railway in Russia.