We took an overnight train from Moscow to St. Petersburg. In the civilized world that demands real public transportation, you can go to bed on a train, sleep comfortably, and wake up when the train attendant knocks on your door to bring you coffee into the place you wanted to be.
Apparently Moscow business people traveling to St. Petersburg do this all the time, because it's cheaper than going during the day and renting a hotel room in St. Petersburg.
It felt very Orient Express, and I did spend a few minutes worrying that my character sketch, leftist bureaucrat with secret past as journalist and pretentions of being a cowgirl made me the most likely to get offed, but in the end every one survived.
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