If you aren’t already aware of it, that first station at the end of the line in Pavlovsk was a pleasure pavilion patterned after the pleasure park in Vauxhall, London.
Concerts and musical performances were held there, and people came from St. Petersburg for the day and evening.
It is also the source of the Russian word for a large railway station.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauxhall_Gardenshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlovsk,_Saint_PetersburgIn the 19th century, Pavlovsk became a favorite summer retreat for well-to-do inhabitants of the Russian capital. The life of Pavlovsk's dachniki was described by Dostoyevsky, who frequently visited the town, in his novel The Idiot. To facilitate transportation, the first railway in Russia, the Tsarskoe Selo Railways, was built around 1836. The first test runs were performed between Pavlovsk and Tsarskoye Selo using carriages horse-drawn over the rails. Regular trains powered by steam locomotives began operating between Pavlovsk and St. Petersburg from May 1838. Aiming to promote the railways, the train terminal of Pavlovsk was built in 1836–1838 as an entertaining center. It then regularly hosted evening festivities, and Johann Strauss II (1856), Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann and Feodor Chaliapin were among the celebrities who performed there. The station was called 'Vauxhall Pavilion', and its fame eventually caused the modified from Vauxhall word "Vokzal" to enter the Russian language, with the meaning "substantial railway station building".
