Two or three hours' delay waiting for the night express to Berlin, and once more en route. The capital cl' the empire was reached the following morning, but I had no time to stop, much as I should have liked to visit the many well-loved old nooks and corners familiar to me in my student days. As it was, I could barely catch the train for St. Petersburg, when I found the carriages very much overcrowded and with difficulty secured a place.