On October 29, 1888, an imperial train crashed near the Borki railway station, where the Russian Tsar Alexander III was returning with his wife and children after a holiday in the Crimea. The disaster happened in the afternoon, at 14:14.
At the time of the train accident, Alexander III was in the dining car with his wife and children. The carriage, large, heavy and long, was supported by wheeled bogies, which during the crash came down, rolled back and piled on top of each other. That blow knocked down the side walls of the car, the side walls cracked and the roof began to fall. The habits that stood at the entrance of the cells died; The rest of the people in the carriage were saved only by the fact that when the roof fell, one end rested on a pyramid of wagons. A triangular space is created, allowing the almost doomed august passengers to exit the carriage. As determined by the investigation, the cause of the disaster was a significant abnormality in the speed of the Royal Heavy Train and deficiencies in the construction of the railway.