four o'clock in the morning
Personally , I know of no other town where such late hours are the vogue , except St. Petersburg . But your St. Petersburger does not get up early in the morning . At St. Petersburg , the music halls , which it is the fashionable thing to attend _ after _ the theatre -- a drive to them taking half an hour in a swift sleigh -- do not practically begin till twelve . Through the Neva at four o'clock in the morning you have to literally push your way ; and the favourite trains for travellers are those starting about five o'clock in the morning . These trains save the Russian the trouble of getting up early . He wishes his friends `` Good-night , '' and drives down to the station comfortably after supper , without putting the house to any inconvenience . Potsdam , the Versailles to Berlin , is a beautiful little town , situate among lakes and woods .