Caucasian Railway

Ghella arrives in Tbilisi to build the Transcaucasian railway link between Erzurum and Kars, the first transit route for Caucasian oil, connecting the port of Poti on the Black Sea to Baku on the Caspian Sea, which was initiated by Tsar Alexander II "the Liberator" and completed in 1883 by Tsar Alexander III "the Pacifier".
Completed the works, Nicholas II immediately orders Transcaucasia to be extended from Kars to Erzurum. And once again, the project is put in the hands of Ghella. In the first half of 1914 the work begins but, as had already happened in China, events follow and the works are put on hold by the Tsar.