Russia Enters the Railway Age, 1842–1855 (Richard Mowbray Haywood)

An exhaustive study of the construction of the St. Petersburg-Moscow Railway, written by my father.

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"The history of nineteenth-century Russia does not get much attention in the West, and what little it does get usually focuses on people and events seen as precursors to Russia’s chaotic later history. As a result, any English-language book on the period, and there are not many, tends to be written by and directed toward specialists. Russia Enters the Railway Age, 1842–1855 is a quintessential example of such a work. The author, Richard Mowbray Haywood, was the world’s leading specialist in nineteenth-century Russian railways, although the only such specialist. He was also my father, and twenty-five years after his death, I decided to read, for the first time, his final work. . . ."