INDEX

actor-network-theory, 12, 58, 70, 81

Afghanistan, 185

Air Berlin, 229

Albertus University, 141

Albrecht, Duke of Brandenburg-Ansbach, 91

Alexander II (Russian Tsar), 7, 69, 77, 174

Aleksandrów (Kujawski), 16, 57–85, 92, 112–113, 117, 120, 135n66, 135n68, 172, 207, 222

Alliance Israélite Universelle, 180

Altberger, Maude, 127

Alvensleben Convention (1863), 72

American Association of Civil Engineers, 229

American Railway Times, 88

Anhalt; station in Berlin, 38, 39

Antin, Mary, 168, 183–186, 188, 190

antisemitism, 90, 127, 152, 174–175, 181, 188, 209, 219

Antwerp, 5

Arendt, Hannah, 149, 151

Arendt, Max, 151

Argentina, 219

Arnim, Bettina von, 25

Association of German Railway Administrations, 25

Association of Königsberg Merchants, 146, 150

Atlas of Vanishing Europe, 110

Austria, Austria-Hungary. See Habsburg Empire

Bade, Klaus, 176

Baden, 25, 36

Baedeker, 14, 74, 109, 120, 126–127, 129, 131, 168, 215, 232

Ballets Russes, 127–128, 216

Ballin, Albert, 186

Balta, 155

Baltic Sea, 5, 17, 23, 30, 89, 104, 116, 118, 141, 145–146, 149, 150, 152–153, 155–156, 158–160, 162n11, 165n123, 170, 198–200, 205, 212, 218

Baltiisk. See Pillau

Bauakademie. See Building Academy

Belarus, 151, 155, 168, 170, 176, 211

Belgium, 4–5, 8, 25, 65, 72, 78, 93, 98, 114, 120, 126, 158, 197

Bentschen, 207–209, 222. See also Neu Bentschen

Berlin; Alexanderplatz, 40, 45, 202; Customs Wall, 16, 23–24, 36, 38, 40, 45, 47, 49, 51; industrial development, 23–26, 45–51; public transport, 44–45, 202; stations, 22–23, 37–51, 58, 202–203; Stralau suburb; 40–41, 43, 45–49, 66; Union of Architects, 98; Wall, 23

Berlin Schlesischer Bahnhof, 202

Berstl, Julius, 202

Beuth, Christian Wilhelm, 24, 93

Bildungsbürgertum, 129, 148

Bismarck, Otto von, 33, 72, 151–152, 157

Black Sea, 116, 139, 141, 145, 149, 155–157, 160, 165n123, 235

Bobrowski, Johannes, 66

Bohemia, 5, 121

Boppard, 53n41

border(lands), 1, 68, 70–71, 77, 79, 81, 87–88, 92, 104–105, 114, 117, 119, 128–129, 146–147, 154, 156, 169–170, 171, 172, 176, 181, 184, 186, 189, 196, 229, 235; control, 68, 70, 73, 77, 79–80, 114–118, 125–127, 148–149, 182, 184–186, 188, 190, 195n132, 199, 201, 208, 215, 221, 231; crossings, 1, 67–69, 71, 73–74, 77, 79, 92, 103, 114–115, 117–118, 132, 135n66, 148, 156, 167–169, 177, 179–183, 189–190, 201, 207, 209, 216–218, 221, 226, 232–234; entangled borderscape, 9–10, 67, 69, 78, 80, 82n16, 110–111, 131, 133, 161, 172, 190, 221, 227, 232, 234; guards, 1, 68–70, 79, 117, 127, 177, 179–182, 188, 193n61; Latvian, 196; Lithuanian, 216, 229, 233; mental, 101, 110, 128, 130–133; phantom, 207, 223n47; Polish, 197, 200, 203, 208, 214, 220, 222, 227–228, 233–234; Schengen, 231–232; securitization, 221, 231; small border traffic, 67, 71, 79–80, 117, 232; smuggling across the, 66–73, 80, 116–117; stations, 72, 110–111, 119, 128, 133, 135n67, 137n100, 147, 155, 181–183, 188, 198, 203, 207–208, 227; towns, 10, 67, 74, 94, 110–111, 113, 119, 128, 146, 175, 179, 186, 189, 198, 215, 222, 229; trade, 68–69, 78, 110, 112–113, 115–116, 142, 145–146, 148–149, 155–157, 160–161, 165n123, 172, 198, 211, 216, 226; Swedish-Finnish, 198, 199; United States, 190, 195n132

Borsig, August, 24, 35, 40, 51

Borsig company, 22, 24–25, 65, 93–94, 142

Boston, 188

Bouché family, 45

Brandenburg, 43, 113

Braunshtein brothers, 180

Brazil, 219

Bremen, 14, 169, 182–183, 185–186, 189–190, 219

Breslau, 5, 23–24, 41, 53n43, 141. See also railroad lines, Berlin-Breslau

Brest (-Litovsk), 155

Breuer, Judith, 90

bridge; Britannia, 92, 97–99, 101, 105; Connecticut River, 95; Conwy, 86, 88, 92, 95, 97; de Cubzac, 108n78; Göltzschthal, 92; lattice, 86–87, 95–101; Menai, 92, 95; Niagara Falls Suspension, 99; Reichsbahnbrücke Königsberg, 210; Rhine River, 101; Royal Canal, 95, 97–98

Brinkmann, Tobias, 186

Brussels, 7–8, 25, 34, 197

Brześć (Litewski). See Brest (-Litovsk)

Bromberg, 29, 37, 58, 93, 203, 205, 220, 233–234. See also railroad company; Warsaw-Bromberg

Brunel, Isambard Kingdom, 55n103, 97

Bubberd. See Boppard

Budweis, 81

Building Academy, 94, 98

Bund der Landwirte, 158–159

Bydgoszcz. See Bromberg

Camphausen, Ludolf, 35–36

Canada, 155

Carlsbad, 121

Castle Garden, 184

České Budějovice. See Budweis

Charnetskii (post office scribe), 57

Chełmno. See Culm

Cherniakhovsk. See Insterburg

Chernyshevskoe. See Eydtkuhnen

Chevalier, Michel, 4

Chicago, 49

China, 3, 14, 64, 75, 124, 148–149, 168, 233

Chinese Exclusion Act, 168

Chișinău. See Kishinev

Chojnice. See Konitz

cholera epidemic, 185–186

church buildings, 77, 90, 111, 229

Ciechocinek, 79

civil engineers, 16, 42, 87–88, 93, 95, 97, 99–101, 105, 117; American, 40, 95–96, 229; British, 4, 97, 99; French, 4, 8, 94; German, 96; Habsburg, 69, 96; Prussian, 86, 93–94, 98, 104, 100; Russian, 95–96; Swiss, 93, 96

Clark, Christopher, 31

Coal Trunk-Line, 205, 207

Cohn, Jacob, 149

Cold War, 18, 227

Cologne, 5, 25, 34–35, 43, 55n103, 88, 90, 101, 123, 125, 128, 197, 202; Central Station, 43, 55n103

Compagnie internationale des wagons-lits. See International Sleeping Car Company

Congress of Vienna, 60

Conrad, Sebastian, 181

Continental Pool, 186, 193n88

control stations, 14, 18, 60, 183, 186–189, 195n120

Convention on Technical Unity of Railroads, 103

Convention on the International Traffic of Goods, 114–115

Conwy Strait, 92, 97

Cook, James, 119

Copenhagen, 145–146

COVID-19 pandemic, 184, 231, 233

Cracow, 16, 25, 226

Credit and Debit, 89

Crimea, 231

Crimean War, 7, 69, 145

Crottingen, 188

Culmann, Karl, 96

Culm, 59, 76

customs, 5, 10, 16–17, 23–24, 34, 36, 40, 45, 49, 51, 60, 64–68, 70, 72, 74, 77, 80, 100, 109–111, 113–118, 125–126, 128, 132, 147–150, 156–158, 171, 196, 199, 201, 207–208, 212, 216

Cuyavia, 59, 66

Danube, 235

Danzig, 29, 64, 66, 72–73, 142, 145, 153, 162n13, 199, 201, 203–205, 207, 212–214, 220, 226, 232

Death in Hamburg, 185

Depolonization policies, 76–78, 81

Deruluft, 210

Deutsch, Karl, 81, 131

Deutsche Ostmesse, 213

Deutscher Bund. See German Confederation

Diaghilev, Sergei, 127–128, 216

Die Natur, 100

dining cars, 122

Dirschau bridges, 16–17, 30–31, 37, 86–105, 197, 205, 220–222, 229, 230

Donimirski, Kalkstein, Łyskowski & Co., 76

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1–3, 9, 13, 110, 119, 127, 132, 138n137

Dover, 196

Dresden, 23

Drewing, Thomas, xi, 253n21

Dufaure, Armand, 27

Düsseldorf, 94

Dziennik Kujawski, 79

East Asia, 14, 149

Ebert, Friedrich, 213

Eastern Railroad Station in Berlin (Ostbahnhof), 38, 39, 40–41, 42, 42–46, 48, 49, 50, 210

Eckard, Eckardt (police director), 80, 117

education, 24, 61, 75–76, 79, 93, 141, 152, 172, 175, 104, 219

Egells, Franz Anton, 24

Eidintas, Alfonsas, 219

Eitkūnai. See Eydtkuhnen

Elbing, Elbląg, 30, 93, 145, 196

Ellis Island, 18, 168, 184, 188, 190, 219

Emergency Quota Act, 218

England. See Great Britain

Enlightenment, 131, 133

Epstein, Herman, 65, 74

Epstein, Mikołaj Stanisław, 74

ERTMS, 234

ethnoscape, 104

Europe; eastern/east central, 8, 11, 22, 60, 82n16, 87–89, 91, 101, 110, 120, 131, 133, 141, 150, 152, 169, 183–185, 189, 197–198, 202–203, 211, 212–215, 218, 221, 227–229, 232–233; railroad network, 6, 7–8, 12, 14, 25–26, 31, 34, 65, 94, 176; western, 2, 7–8, 14, 16–18, 22, 38, 51, 58, 68, 73, 98, 103, 115, 118–121, 123, 126, 128, 133, 140–141, 145–146, 148, 153, 155–156, 160, 170, 172, 176, 197–198, 207, 211–213, 215–219, 221, 228–229, 233

European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation TransOderana, 234, 236n21

European Interest Group Ostbahn, 233, 236n21

European Union, 165, 229, 231–233

Europeans, The, 110

Evans, Richard, 185

Eydtkuhnen, 1–3, 7, 10–12, 17–18, 64, 109–122, 124, 126–128, 131–133, 146, 167–168, 170–172, 175, 179, 181–182, 188–190, 196–199, 215–216, 218–219, 227, 228, 229, 232; station building, 111–112, 112, 134n15

Fabricius (railroad inspector), 72

Farhi, Moris, 131

Figes, Orlando, 110, 119, 137n113

Filehne, 93

Finns, 176

First World War, 3, 14, 68–69, 101, 109, 123, 128, 141, 150, 153, 161–162, 168–169, 177, 179, 196–197, 199, 202–203, 205, 209–210, 215, 217, 220–221, 232

France, 1, 4–5, 7–8, 17, 24, 26–27, 29, 31, 33–36, 43, 59, 68, 72, 75, 77, 90, 93–94, 96, 98, 100, 103–105, 114–115, 119–122, 124–127, 129–130, 133, 148, 158–159, 207, 220

Frankfurt am Main, 35, 189

Frankfurt on the Oder, x–xi, 37, 41, 62, 203–205, 206, 222; station in Berlin, 22, 37–38, 39, 40–42, 44–46, 47–48, 49, 55n103; Wappenhaus, 205, 206, 223n40

Frederick William III, 27–28

Frederick William IV, 27–28, 32, 88, 90, 98

French Revolution, 125

French Riviera, 124

Freytag, Gustav, 89

Frisches Haff, 227

Gaertner, Eduard, 106n33

Galicia, 57, 80, 175

Garonne, 96

gates, 3, 95, 112, 128, 188–189, 207–208, 219–221; city, 22–24, 36, 38, 40, 45, 49, 60, 114; railroad, 47, 143, 144

Gazeta Toruńska, 76

Gdańsk. See Danzig

Gdingen, Gdynia, 205, 213, 218

General Directorate of the East Railroad, 226

genocide, 226

German Central Community for Russian-Jewish Refugees, 180–181

German Confederation, 36

German Customs Union. See Zollverein

German Democratic Republic, 228

German states, Germany, 4–5, 6, 7–9, 14, 16, 18, 22, 24–28, 30–31, 33–36, 41, 46, 49–51, 57–59, 62, 72, 76, 78, 88–90, 92, 98, 101, 103–105, 112, 116, 119–121, 125–129, 141, 144, 148, 150–153, 155–161, 167, 169, 176, 181, 197–205, 207–213, 215–220, 226–227, 229; government, 151–152, 153, 157–158, 189, 197, 203–204, 209, 211–212, 217; language, 61–63, 66, 72–76, 78–79, 81, 87, 110–111, 122, 152, 170, 176, 203–204

Germanization policies, 16, 61, 75–76, 203

Germany. A Winter’s Tale, 34–35

Gerstner, Anton von, 5, 7, 69

Ghega, Carl, 96

Gollup, Rose, 183

Görlitz; station in Berlin, 38, 39

Gorzów Wielkopolski, 29

Gostitski, Adalbert (painter), 73

Götzendorf-Grabowski, Josef von, 62

Gothic Revival, 87–88, 90, 93, 229

Grajewo, 77

Granica, 77

Graudenz, 29

Great Britain, 3–4, 7, 17, 24–25, 35, 40, 51, 64, 66, 69, 93–95, 97, 99–102, 104–105, 119–121, 125, 127, 133, 145, 147–148, 150, 153, 160, 179, 186, 218

Greenbaum, Masha, 219

Grodno, 69, 170, 179

Grudziądz. See Graudenz

Grunwald (Battle of 1410), 89

Guard on the Rhine, 90

Gudovius, 181–182

guidebook, 2, 8, 11, 14, 74, 100, 109–110, 118, 120–122, 126, 128–131, 133, 168, 215, 232

Gusse, Tibo, 122, 136n78

Habsburg Empire, 8, 25–26, 36, 58–59, 69–70, 80, 96, 126, 152, 155, 175, 181–182

Hague, The, 211

Hamburg, 14, 23, 34, 38, 122, 146, 169, 179, 182–186, 188–190, 214; station in Berlin, 38, 39

Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft. See HAPAG

Hanover, 24

Hanseatic League, 141

Hansemann, David, 33, 35–36, 51, 62

HAPAG, 183, 186, 188

Haparanda, 198, 199

Hardenberg, Karl August von, 31–32

Harkavy, Alexander, 179

Hartlepool, 179

health screening, 18, 169, 182–190

Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, 179

Heine, Heinrich, 34

Help Committee of German Jews, 180, 189

Heyden, Woldemar von der, 32

Heydt, August von der, 98, 123

Holocaust, 226, 235n2

Holodomor, 213

Holy Roman Empire, 88

Högselius, Per, 199

Howe, William, 96

Hughes, Charles, 142

Huguenots, 45

Hull, 145–146

Hrodna. See Grodno

Hübinger, Gangolf, 101

Hüffer, Johann Hermann, 29

Humber, William, 99

Iakubovich, 130

Iarzhinskii (conductor), 57

IKEA, 232

Illowo, Iłowo, 188

Imperial Continental Gas Association, 45–48

Immigration Acts, 184

Insterburg, 153

Interessengemeinschaft Ostbahn, 233

International Railroad Congress, 103

International Sleeping Car Company, 14, 17, 122–125, 128, 196, 197, 232

International Statistical Congress, 103

International Telecommunication Union, 103

Inventing Eastern Europe, 11, 133

Ireland, 25, 69, 81, 94–95, 98–100, 105

Istanbul, 229

Italy, 98, 119, 128, 158

Japan, 159, 216

Jena and Auerstedt (battle), 141

Jeschke, Felix, 207

Jewish Colonization Association, 177, 189

Joanne, 126, 129–130

Johnson-Reed Act, 218

Journal of the Franklin Institute, 99

Kachanovskii (postmaster), 57

Kaijser, Arne, 199

Kaiser, Wolfram, 93

Kaliningrad. See Königsberg

Kamiński (grain merchant), 57

Kant, Immanuel, 141, 231

Karlovy Vary. See Carlsbad

Kaschuba, Wolfgang, 14, 229

Kastan, Isidor, 51

Kaunas, 14, 17, 94, 145, 167–171, 173–174, 184, 194n96, 210, 232, 235n2

Kazatin, 155

Kehl, 101

Kęstutis, Grand Duke of Lithuania, 86

Kharkiv, Kharkov, 163n48

Khmerinka, 155

Kiel Canal, 104

Kießling, Martin, 204

Kishinev, 188

Klajpėda. See Memel

Klier, John, 175

Kniprode, Winrich von, 86–87, 91

Knoblauch, Eduard, 63, 93

Koblenz, 129–130

Kohlrausch, Martin, 100

Köln. See Cologne

Königsberg, 3, 5, 8, 16–18, 29, 31, 37, 42, 63, 64, 72, 102, 109, 111, 118–120, 125, 127, 139–142, 143, 144–162, 171, 197, 200–203, 209–215, 217–218, 221, 226–229, 231–235; airport, 210; Castle, 140; Jews of, 17, 141, 150–153, 161, 188–189; port of, 17, 116, 139, 141, 145–147, 153, 156, 161, 209–210; Seekanal, 150, 210; station buildings of, 139, 140, 144, 210, 230; trade in, 141, 146–150, 153, 155–161, 162n11, 163n54, 165n123, 210–214, 221–222, 236n17

Königsberger Hartungsche Zeitung, 148, 160

Konitz, 192n33

Konrad of Mazovia, 89, 91

Koshar, Rudy, 130

Kostrzyn. See Küstrin

Kowno. See Kaunas

Koziatin, 155

Kraft, Nicholas, 96

Krakau, Kraków. See Cracow

Kretinga. See Crottingen

Kreuz, 37

Królewiec. See Königsberg

Krüger, Arthur, 158

Krüger, H. W., 97

Krzyż. See Kreuz

Kulturkampf, 152

Kurzhiiamskii (tobacco inspector), 57

Kujawien. See Cuyavia

Kujawy. See Cuyavia

Küstrin, 29, 37, 42, 233; railroad station in Berlin, 38, 42–43

Küstriner Platz (Berlin), 42–43, 46, 203

Kybartai, 109–111, 113, 117, 215, 227

Landsberg on the Warthe, 29

Latour, Bruno, 12

law; 1862 passport, 126; 1838/1842 railroad, 4, 27–29; Russian antisemitic, 127; State Indebtness, 31–32

Le Havre, 14

Legrand, Alexis, 4, 7

Lehrte, station in Berlin, 38, 39

Leipzig, 23

Leiserowitz, Ruth, 60, 182, 190

Lemberg. See L’viv

Lenin, Vladimir I., 197–198, 232

Leningrad. See St. Petersburg

Lentze, Carl Friedrich, 16, 90, 94–101, 104–105

Leo, Max, 151

Lepona, Lepone, 109, 215–216

Levin’s Mill, 66

Libau, Liepāja, 149, 157, 159–160, 170, 213, 219

Lille, 115–116

Lipson, Léopold, 119

Lisbon, 14, 124

List, Friedrich, 4–5, 7, 16, 19n9, 26, 28, 40, 51, 62, 197

literature, 90, 109–110, 117, 131–132

Lithuania, 2, 13, 58–60, 63, 66–67, 79, 86–89, 141, 151, 167, 170, 174, 179, 199, 211–213, 215–216, 218–219, 227, 229, 231–233

Lithuanian language, 3, 8, 11, 109–111, 117, 169–170, 172–173, 176, 179, 191n23, 192n46, 219

Litvaks, 173–175

Litwa. See Lithuania

Liverpool, 3, 96, 179

Lloyd (London), 122

Lohr, Eric, 177

Lohmeyer, Hans, 209

Lohse, Hermann, 101

London, 1, 3, 8, 14, 42, 44–45, 119–120, 122, 124–125, 128–129, 145–146, 149, 153, 160, 196, 202; Crystal Palace, 42; Docklands, 149; Paddington Station, 55n103; World Exhibitions, 42, 99–100

Lonely Planet, 232

Lontski, Ksawery (repairman), 73

Lotman, Juri, 44

Lubuskie, Polish Province of, 234

L’viv, Lwów, 44

MacCannell, Dan, 133

Mac Donald, Hektor (senior engineer), 73

Madrid, 14

Magdeburg, 23

Malbork, Marienburg, 30, 37, 93, 104, 207; bridge, 87, 90–91, 93, 98, 101, 104; castle, 87–90, 91

Mallet, Robert, 99

Malmö, 198

March Revolution (Berlin), 26, 35–36, 63

Marsden, Ben, 94

Mayakovsky, Vladimir V., 132

McKeown, Adam, 169

Mechkovski, Julian (cashier), 73

medical control, 18, 169, 182–190

Mediterranean, 122, 125, 232

Meier, Charles, 60

Mellin, Friedrich, 97

Melnikov, Pavel, 96

Memel (city), 145, 148

Memel (river). See Niemen

Mehrtens, Georg Christoph, 101

Menai Strait, 92

Merridale, Catherine, 198

Meseritz, Międzyrzecz, 30

Miasoedov, Sergei, 180

Middle East, 218

Mierosławski, Ludwik, 74

military, 4, 12–13, 16, 18, 23, 25–32, 35–36, 51, 59, 62, 69–70, 72–74, 77–78, 81, 87–88, 92, 103, 144, 159, 170, 177, 186, 198, 204, 220, 228, 232; service, 127, 173, 175–176

Mitteleuropäische Schlafwagengesellschaft, Mitropa, 197

Mława, 77

Moch, Leslie Page, 177

Molvanîa, 233

Monte Carlo, 128

Moscow, 7, 69, 95, 114, 124–125, 128, 149, 185, 210, 213, 233

Müller, Uwe, 156

multiple mobilities, 8, 9, 13–14, 16, 22, 51, 59, 168, 190

Münster, 29, 94

Murray, 118, 120, 122, 126–127, 129–130, 232

Muschwitz, Herrmann, 74

Muscovy, 141, 167

Nabokov, Vladimir, 125, 127

Nadwiślanin, 76, 119

Nakel, Nakło, 93

Napoleon, 60, 104, 141

Napoleonic Wars, 31, 88, 142

nationalism, 3, 8, 13, 59, 62, 90–91, 104, 110, 161, 176, 197; German, 8, 17, 81, 89–90, 92, 104, 142, 181; Polish, 13, 16, 57, 59, 70, 75–76, 80–81, 89–90; Russian, 78, 81, 89, 156

Neidenburg, 153

Neilson, Keith, 75

Nemunas. See Niemen

Neris, 170

Netze, 30, 37

Netherlands, 5, 22, 25, 46, 98, 104, 145–146, 148

Neu Bentschen, 208

Neustettin, 192n33

Nevski, Alexander, 77, 124

New York, 18, 167, 169, 174–175, 184–185, 229

Nice, 125

Nicholas I, Russian Tsar, 5, 61

Nidzica. See Neidenburg

Niemen, 94, 170, 211, 214

Nogat, 30, 37, 91, 93–94, 140

nonhuman actors, 9, 12, 14, 58, 70, 79, 162, 169, 190, 222

Nord-Express, 14, 124–125, 196–197, 217

Norddeutscher Lloyd, 183, 188

Norris Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, 35

North Sea, 104

Norway, 148

Noteć. See Netze

Nowogródek, Nowogrudok, 179

Oder, 37

Odesa, 141, 149, 153, 154, 155

Odra. See Oder

Orient Express, 123

orientalism, 133

Oostende, 123–124, 196

Ostbahnhof. See Eastern Railroad Station

Ostendorff, Gottfried, 142

Osterhammel, Jürgen, 7

Ostjude, 152, 180

othering, 110, 128, 130–131, 133, 181, 188

Otłoczyn, Ottlotschin, 57, 65, 67, 188

Otte, T. G., 75

Ottoman Empire, 116, 145, 235

Pacey, Arnold, 93

Pacific, 111, 124

Pale of Settlement, 174, 176, 188, 192n32

Palestine, 89, 219

Paris, 4–5, 7–9, 12, 14, 17, 25, 27, 34, 43, 45, 61, 74, 103, 104, 111–112, 115, 121, 123–126, 128, 132, 160, 180, 201–202, 217, 232–233; Convention, 201; July Revolution, 61; North Station, 43

Paris-Moscow Express, 233

Passarge, Louis, 87, 92, 98

passport control, 12, 79, 109, 117, 125–128, 132, 167, 176–177, 180–181, 183, 196, 201, 209, 215

Pennsylvania, 4, 35

Pecqueur, Constantin, 43

Peking, 198

Petrograd. See St. Petersburg

Peucker, von, Prussian General-Major, 31

Philadelphia, 7, 35, 179

Piła. See Schneidemühl

Pillau, 144, 150, 153, 200, 212

Pintsch, Julius, 46, 48, 51, 56n124

pogroms, 174–175, 188

Poland, Poland-Lithuania, Kingdom of, 7–8, 16, 22, 57–81, 87–89, 92, 121, 126, 146, 151, 170, 172, 175, 199–201, 204–209, 211–215, 218, 220, 221, 227–229, 231–232; government, 65, 70, 72, 209, 232; partitions of, 58–61, 63, 69, 72–73, 76, 79–81, 87, 92, 117, 170, 199

Polatsk, 168, 190n2

Polenaktion, 208–209

Poling, Kristin, 41, 49

Polish Corridor, 18, 200–201, 205, 208, 211–212, 222

Polish Economic Parliament, 76

Polish language, 8, 28, 30, 60–63, 66, 69–70, 72, 75–76, 78–81, 111, 119, 122, 129, 151–152, 170, 172, 176, 186, 191n11, 203

Polish-Bolshevik War, 211

Polonization policies, 203–204

Polotsk. See Polatsk

Pomerania, 32, 43, 57, 87, 192n33

Portugal, 124

Posen, Poznań, 16, 29–30, 33, 43, 57, 61–63, 72–73, 75, 207–208, 235

Potsdam, 5, 23, 140; station in Berlin, 38, 39

Potsdam Conference, 227

Pratt, Mary Louise, 10, 132

Pregel, Pregolia, 141–142, 144, 150, 210

Pretzel, 130

Prostken, Prostki, 155, 188

Prussia; government, 31, 33–36, 66, 72, 74–75, 81, 96, 98, 101, 119, 122, 140, 146, 148, 150, 181, 185–186, 188; Diets, 28, 31–34, 36, 63, 88, 96; parliament, 28, 31–32, 36, 63, 90, 96, 126

Przegiętka, Marcin, ix

Public Health Service, 184

Pullman, Georges M., 123

quarantine, 2, 9, 18, 185

Rabin, Leah, 151

Radok, Elias, 144

railroad company/railroad line; Baltimore and Ohio, 4; Belgian State, 115; Berlin-Breslau (Niederschlesische/ Lower Silesian), 5, 16, 23, 49, 54n83, 122; Berlin-Potsdam, 5, 23–25, 35; Berlin-Stettin, 5, 23, 37–38; Dublin-Drogheda, 95; Chinese Eastern, 75; Circular (Ringbahn), 49–50; East Prussian Southern (Südbahn), 139, 143, 144, 153, 143–144, 153, 155–156, 158, 160, 162, 171, 210–211, 216; French Northern, 43, 115; German Imperial (Reichsbahn), 203–204, 208–211, 216; German State, 125; Liverpool and Manchester, 3; Main Company of Russian Railroads, 7; New Orleans and Carrolton, 40; Nürnberg to Fürth, 5; Polish State, 201, 205, 208, 212; Prussian State, 181–182, 196, 203; Rail Baltica, 233, 234; Russian South-Western, 154, 155; Semmering, 92; Soviet State, 228; St. Petersburg-Moscow (Nicholas Railroad), 95; Warsaw-Bromberg (Warszawsko-Bydgoska), 57–59, 64–66, 68–74, 76–79, 81, 207; Warsaw-St. Petersburg, 111, 180; Warsaw-Vienna (Warszawsko-Wiedeńska), 7, 65, 69

railroad; restaurants, 109, 112, 122, 128, 130, 212; schedules, 25, 58, 102–103, 118, 124–125, 129, 131, 197, 220–221, 229; strategic, 4, 7, 12, 16, 26–27, 29–30, 33, 36–37, 40, 69, 74, 77–78, 92, 200, 220, 233

Railroad Directorate East, 203

Ram family, 184–185, 190

Eisenbahndirektion Osten, 203

Reinecke, Christiane, 152

religion; Catholic, 61, 66, 77, 127, 152; Jewish, 66, 77, 111, 151, 176, 180, 182; Lutheran, 66; Orthodox, 66, 77, 172

Renaissance Revival, 41, 44, 77, 150

Rhine, 27, 88, 90, 121, 129, 146, 172–173

Rhineland, 5, 24

Riche Brothers, 65

Riga, Rīga, 149, 159, 165n123, 170, 173, 196, 210–211, 213–214, 217; Peace Treaty of 1921, 211

Rolf, Malte, 76

Romania, 155

romanticism, 44, 88, 92, 130

Roosevelt, Theodore, 168

Roth, Ralf, 35

Rotman, Iankel Girshev, 167, 179

Rotterdam, 2, 145–146, 167–169

Royal Commission for the Construction of the Vistula and Nogat Bridges, 94

Rozanov, Vasili, 132

rugi pruskie, 85n124

Rumkovski (cashier), 73

Rupnik, Czesław, 57

Russia; government, 57–58, 61, 66, 69, 71–72, 74, 77–78, 80, 127, 172, 174, 176–177, 198, 212, 227, 231

Russian Invasion of Ukraine, x, 165n98, 231–233, 235

Russo-Japanese War, 68, 188

Russo-Ottoman War, 116, 139

Russian Federation, 11, 229, 232

Russification. See Depolonization policies

Ryanair, 232

Rzeczpospolita. See Poland

Said, Edward, 133

sailing ship, 145, 175

Salza, Hermann von, 91–92

Sambor II, Duke of Pomerania, 87

Sassnitz, 198

Saucken-Tarputschen, Ernst-Friedrich Fabian von, 33, 53n65

Saxony, 5, 36, 92

Scandinavia, 198

Schinz, Rudolph Eduard, 96

Schivelbusch, Wolfgang, 40, 42, 91, 229

Schlögel, Karl, ix, 9, 60, 128, 133, 137n113, 202, 235n8

Schlossberg, Fima, 151

Schneidemühl, 93

Schön, Theodor von, 61, 89

Schönlanke, 93

Schot, Johan, 93

Schüler-Springorum, Stefanie, 142

Schuller, Alfred, 117

Schwedler, Johann Wilhelm, 101

Scotland, 25, 148

Second World War, 3, 18, 40, 110, 147, 162n14, 197, 201, 220–221, 226–227, 229, 232

Seedienst Ostpreußen, 200

Seniunas, Kazimir, 2–3, 9, 12–13, 167–168, 173, 179, 182, 184, 190, 191n3

Shidorsky, 167–168

shipping companies, 66, 100, 110–111, 113–114, 116–117, 147–148, 151, 169, 176, 181–182, 186–189

Siberia, 74, 113, 172, 182, 227

Siegelbaum, Lewis H., 177

Sienkiewicz, Henryk, 89

Silesia, 25, 37, 41, 92, 205; Silesian Station, 38, 39, 48, 49–50, 119, 122, 202. See also railroad line, Berlin-Breslau

Simonsdorf, 221

sleeping cars, 14, 17, 122–125, 128, 196–197, 202, 232

Slezkine, Yuri, 173

Słupca, 77

Smith, Crosbie, 94

Smithsonian Institution, 100

Society for the Protection of Immigrants, 183

Soest, 94

Sound Dues, 66, 145

South Africa, 219

Southampton, 14

Sovetsk. See Tilsit

Soviet Union, 202, 211–218, 221, 227–228

Spain, 104, 124

Spode, Hasso, 120

Spree, 40, 45, 50

Springfield/Massachusetts, 96

St. Peter(s)burg, 1, 3, 5, 7–8, 12, 14, 17, 69–70, 73, 94–95, 98, 103, 111, 114–115, 118–119, 121, 123–126, 128–130, 135n53, 149, 157, 160, 170–171, 173, 180, 196–198, 211, 213–214, 217, 226, 232–233

Stablewski, Erasmus von, 62

Stangen, Carl, 119

steamships, 7–8, 13–14, 79, 94, 101, 124, 141, 144–146, 160, 168, 170, 175–176, 180, 182–186, 188–189, 190

Stephenson, George, 3, 25, 94, 97

Stephenson, Robert, 97, 100

stereotype, 90, 131, 152, 184–185, 232

Stettin 5, 23, 37, 203; station in Berlin, 38, 39

Stilgoe, John, 197

Stockholm, 198

Stodolny, Robert, 65

Stoehr, Erich, 156

Stolzenfels Castle, 88

Stone, Amasa, 96

Strousberg, Henry, 153, 155

Stüler, Friedrich August, 90, 93, 98

Stutthof, 226

Sud-Express, 124

Suez Canal, 104, 149

Sweden, 98, 198–199

Swinemünde, Świnoujście, 200

Switzerland, 93, 96, 98, 104, 126–127, 197–198

Szczecin. See Stettin

Szczecinek. See Neustettin

Sztutowo, 226

Szymankowo. See Simonsdorf

Tannenberg (Battle of 1410)

Tannenberg Memorial, 217

Tczew bridges. See Dirschau bridges

technocratic internationalism, 93

telegraph, 7, 13–14, 43, 58, 60, 70–71, 73, 103, 145, 151

Teutonic Knights, Teutonic Order, 87–89, 91–92, 104, 141, 210, 227

Teutonic Knights, The, 89

Thorn, 29–30, 57–58, 61, 64–66, 72, 76, 78–79, 87, 92, 104, 196, 205, 234

Tilsit, 94, 117, 153

time; railroad, 102–103; standard, 102–103, 105

Tokyo, 198

Tornio, 198

Toruń. See Thorn

Totleben, Count Eduard Ivanovich, 175

tourism, tourists, 2, 7–9, 11–14, 17, 70, 94, 110, 116–117, 119–121, 126–130, 132–133, 168, 172, 190, 197, 217–218, 231–232

Towne, Ithiel, 95

track gauge, 10–11, 17, 25, 78, 96, 110, 113, 115, 118, 132, 147

trade, 13, 17–18, 23–24, 26–27, 30, 43, 49, 62, 64, 66–71, 75, 78, 86, 93, 110–116, 123, 139–142, 144–153, 155–162, 170, 172, 174, 176, 197, 203, 210–216, 221–222; agreements, 5, 66, 141, 156–160, 212; grain, 17, 26, 57, 64, 66, 113, 141, 147–148, 150–153, 155–162; herring, 113, 148–149, 160, 163n48, 214; illicit. See border, smuggling across the; legumes/lentils, 150, 152, 159, 161, 213; tea, 68, 148–150

transnational, 2–3, 8–10, 14, 16, 25, 40, 51, 60, 63, 72, 86–88, 93, 101–102, 104–105, 128, 161, 180, 197, 217, 232, 234