Trans-Siberian Railway - Cultural Importance

Cultural Importance

  • The Trans-Siberian Railway is the theme for the Trans-Siberian Railway Panorama and 1900 Trans-Siberian Railway Fabergé egg.
  • In the videogame Syberia the protagonist travels by train through Russia/Siberia - a clear reference to The Trans-Siberian railway
  • The Corto Maltese comic Corte sconta detta arcana/Corto Maltese en Sibérie has the Trans-Siberian Railway as part of the story that takes place in the Russian Revolutionary period of the 20th century.
  • The cult film Horror Express starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and Telly Savalas is set aboard the railway.
  • In the play Fiddler on the Roof and the film version, Tevye's daughter, Hodel, takes the Trans-Siberian Railway to Siberia after her fiancé is exiled there.
  • A small number of German Jews and anti-Nazis used the Trans-Siberian to escape Europe after the start of World War II (while the Molotov Pact was in force), including the Mathematician Kurt Gödel and the mother of the actor Heinz Bernard
  • The 2008 thriller Transsiberian takes place on the railway.
  • The 2012 Television show An Idiot Abroad features Karl Pilkington (friend of actor Ricky Gervais & producer Stephen Merchant) traveling the length of the railway.

Henry Rollins has an infamous bit of his trip on the Transsiberian Express.

Read more about this topic:  Trans-Siberian Railway

Famous quotes containing the words cultural and/or importance:

    “We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.”
    —Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)

    “Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)