In the summer of 2015, I traveled by train from St. Petersburg to Beijing. Following the Trans–Siberian route, I crossed from Moscow to Irkutsk (making stops in Suzdal, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, and Listvyanka) where I picked up the Trans–Mongolian train, then continued on to Ulaanbaatar and, finally, arrived in Beijing. Over the course of six weeks, I photographed in the urban environments of the places where I stopped, as well as on the trains and buses themselves, and purchased old photographs at various flea markets along the way. Collected here are the photographs made on the train and in the cities, as well as scanned copies of the found images. Knitted together in a single thread, the different sets of images tell the interwoven stories of my observations in each location, the journey on the train, and create a fictitious history of the places themselves.