Museum train makes first trip

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1. Train Leo Tolstoy express at Kursky railstation 2. Various of orchestra playing 3. Impersonator of Anna Karenina walking to the train 4. Impersonator of Alexei Vronsky standing by the train 5. Actors getting into the train 6. Passengers waving 7. Train leaving 8. Train going 9. Passengers sitting in the carriage 10. Passengers reading 11. Portrait of Leo Tolstoy 12. Train waitress serving 13. Passengers eating the caviar pancakes 14. "War and Peace" movie on the TV 15. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Yun Yong Sun "I read Tolstoy's books in Korea where I live now and it is really great to be on this trip today, I couldn't believe I'm here." 16. Train standing at the Kozlova Zaseka rail station 17. Leo Tolstoy monument 18. Russian dancers 19. Accordion 20. Children in Russian costumes 21. Director of Yasnay Polyana museum Vladimir Tolstoy dancing 22. Women in Russian costumes sitting 23. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Vladimir Tolstoy, great great grandson of Leo Tolstoy and keeper of Leo Tolstoy memorial museum "This opening of a new era, of a new opportunity to visit Yasnaya Polyana. People now can use the most comfortable and fast way of coming over here, to Yasnaya Polyana." 24. Opening ceremony 25. Kozlova Zaseka railway station 26. Officials cutting the ribbon 27. Woman standing by the steam train 28. Leo Tolstoy monument STORYLINE: The "Tolstoy express" train made its maiden voyage from Moscow to Yasnaya Polyana on Sunday. The opening of the new route was timed to coincide with the 173rd birthday anniversary of the great novelist. Leo Tolstoy had lived in his Yasnay Polyana mansion, some 150 kilometers from Moscow, for most of his life. The passengers of "Tolstoy express" are treated with traditional Russian "blinis" pancakes with smattering of caviar while portraits of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina" author are hanging from the walls and television sets show film versions of his novels. Yasnaya Polyana railway station was fully restored to look like in Tolstoy days - now it looks like it was described by Leo Tolstoy in his memoirs. A great-great-son of the writer and director of the Yasnaya Polyana memorial museum Vladimir Tolstoy believes that the special train will make it much easier for Tolstoy's devotees to travel and will attract scores of visitors in the future. Keyword-WACKY You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/531e26702d2a7298f7c9d7101c820e28 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork