I have to say, taking the night train from Moscow to St Petersburg was eye opening. I went from modern metropolis of skyscrapers and tower cranes to run down r

I have to say, taking the night train from Moscow to St Petersburg was eye opening. I went from modern metropolis of skyscrapers and tower cranes to run down rusty industrial facilities that wouldn't look out of place in a STALKER game to sod roofed villages that look as they might have when Napoleon was making an ill fated expedition. Then of course a vast expanse of nothing at all.