Suburbs and countrysides on the turn-of-the-20th-century  postcards  
RazdelnaiaSestroretsk Seaside Railway Line 
Razdelnaia

[Razdelnaia] It was a small uninteresting estate at that time. ...A branch line four kilometres long came from Razdelnaia and extends right to the headland named Lisii Nos /Fox Nose/, like the whole countryside jutting out into the Gulf of Finland. There was a wooden wharf at the edge of the headland, into which passenger ships came from Kronshtadt, and a locomotive connected to two or three carriages, carried people to Razdelnaia according to the scheduled train timetable.

Zasosov D.A., Pyzin V.I.
Saint Petersburg Life of the 1890s-1910s.
Notes of Witnesses. Leningrad, 1991.

 
 
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