Beyond the walls of the Gorodok, is Akademichesky Pereulok, via which one can walk to the imperial train station ruins. This is just one of the places frozen in time which still truly reflects the by-gone days of the Russian imperial era. The station was used by members of the imperial family as well as palace officials arriving by train from St Petersburg to Tsarskoe Selo.
Above: the imperial train station then and now.
Today the imperial train station ruins look so incongruous in the midst of the late 20th century residential buildings; the train tracks are long gone, but the ghosts remain
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Catherine Palace
