Trans-Siberian: A Short History of the Longest Railway

By Nicole Segre

Behind the romance of the longest railway in the world lies a story full of extraordinary events and people, starting with the band of Cossack brigands who claimed the cold, forested land beyond the Urals for Ivan the Terrible. Russia's wild east languished until burly Alexander III, backed by his dynamic finance minister Sergei Witte, forced through the building of a line that transformed fertile steppes and sleepy backwaters, sparked a ruinous war with Japan and sealed the fate of the last Romanovs as civil war raged on its rails. For full-colour illustrations buy the paperback from Nicole Segre.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1545190593
• ISBN13: 9781545190593
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.3" x 5.0"