🏛 Vitebsky Station

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Russia's first railway station, with Art Nouveau interiors

The first Russian railway, the Tsarskoye Selo line, started here; the first train, with the locomotive Provorny, was driven by Franz Gerstner himself, and Nicholas I was among the passengers.
The station changed names: St Petersburg, from 1900 Tsarskoselsky, then Detskoselsky.
The present building opened on 1 August 1904 to a design by Stanislav Brzozowski — one of the first public buildings in the Art Nouveau style.
The main concourse, more than 20 m high, is covered by a metal dome.
Above the main entrance are the coats of arms of Petersburg and Vitebsk, the line's terminals in 1904.
On the station's clock tower you can find reliefs of owls.

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