Russia by Rail Available to Purchase

What powerful images: the romance of the Trans‐Siberian railway which takes trains seven days to travel the 10,000 kilometres from Moscow to Vladivostok (described here as the ultimate rail journey); the dramatic scenes from the film Dr Zhivago in which the train emerges from a long tunnel to breathtaking views of the snow‐covered Ural Mountains, or the forest siding where Omar Sharif meets Tom Courtenay; the legendary opulence of the Moscow Metro! Although this is not a glossy coffee‐table book, Russia by Rail opens up the colossal region stretching from the Baltic States and Poland to China and Mongolia to...