Восемь дней до океана

Eight Days to the Ocean

B1 · Intermediate · fiction · 10 scenes · Premium story

An intermediate story set on the Trans-Siberian in 1913, at the height of its luxury era. A twenty-four-year-old travels nine thousand versts to a teaching post in Vladivostok: a compartment like a drawing room, a menu in two languages, thirty tunnels along Baikal, and twenty-minute platforms where no first class exists.

Read Восемь дней до океана in Russian

Characters

Alexandra (Александра Петровна) — The narrator, twenty-four
Sergei Lvovich (Сергей Львович) — The engineer
The attendant (Проводник) — Carriage attendant
The platform sellers (Женщины с корзинами) — At every station

Vocabulary from this story

поезд — train
вокзал — railway station
вагон — carriage
купе — compartment
проводник — attendant
носильщик — porter
чемодан — trunk
перрон — platform
коридор — corridor
остановка — stop
паровоз — locomotive
тоннель — tunnel