It was 17 km long and linked the Imperial Palaces at Tsarskoye Selo and Pavlovsk.
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The first initiative in developing railways came following a meeting called by Tsar Nicholas I held on 13 January, 1842 where he announced that the state would build the St Petersburg-Moscow railway.
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