OREANDA-NEWS. On August 08, 2007 Grand Princess Maria Vladimirovna expressed her wish to travel on the Trans-Siberian Main Line to Victor Osipov, the head of the Vladivostok Division of the Far-Eastern Main line, reported the press-centre of Russian Railways.

Maria Vladimirovna was visiting the Vladivostok railway station, a national historical monument whose foundation was laid in 1891 by the Tsarevitch, Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov, who subsequently became Nikolai II, the last Russian emperor.

The excursion of the Grand Princess began with a visit to a memorial stele which marks the last 9,288th kilometer of the Trans-Siberian Main Line, which linked Moscow to Russia’s Far East and the Pacific Ocean.

At the end of the twentieth century, the construction of the Ussuri Railway began here and represented the beginning of the Great Siberian Rail way, which is now the Trans-Siberian Main Line.

During her visit to the railway station, the Grand Princess expressed her approval of how well the station had been preserved.