Trans-Siberian Railroad

During World War I and the Russian Revolution, it was the California-heavy element of the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia that covered the anti-Bolshevik Russian escape along the Trans-Siberian Railroad in 1918-1920.

She and a few fellow Dollies took the Trans-Siberian railroad across the then-Soviet Union to Moscow.

Next Horn heads to China, to Harbin, a city that arose at the end of the 19th century as the Trans-Siberian Railroad cut across Manchuria and the Russians, needing entrepreneurs to construct its buildings and run its hotels, promised Jews that if they came, antisemitic laws and pogroms would not follow.

The movie is set in and was shot in Harbin, a city in Heilongjiang, China’s northernmost province, an area that came under significant Russian influence during the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railroad.

The Russian minister of communication has stated that when the great Trans-Siberian railroad is opened, early in the twentieth century, the tour of the world can be completed in thirty-three days.”