Helsinki ( north of Tallinn) in approximately 2–3.5 hours by cruiseferries. Railroad The Elron railway company operates train services from Tallinn to Tartu, Valga, Türi, Viljandi, Tapa, Narva, Koidula. Buses are also available to all these and various other destinations in Estonia, as well as to Saint Petersburg in Russia and Riga, Latvia. The Russian railways company operates a daily international sleeper train service between Tallinn – Moscow. Tallinn also has a commuter rail service running from Tallinn's main rail station in two main directions: east (Aegviidu) and to several western destinations (Pääsküla, Keila, Riisipere, Turba, Paldiski, and Kloogaranna). These are electrified lines and are used by the Elron railroad company. Stadler FLIRT EMU and DMU units are in service since July 2013. The first electrified train service in Tallinn was opened in 1924 from Tallinn to Pääsküla, a distance of . The Rail Baltica project, which will link Tallinn with Warsaw via Latvia and Lithuania, will connect Tallinn with the rest of the European rail network. A undersea tunnel has been proposed between Tallinn and Helsinki, though it remains at a planning phase. Roads The Via Baltica motorway (part of European route E67 from Helsinki to Prague) connects Tallinn to the Lithuanian-Polish border through Latvia. Frequent and affordable long-distance bus routes connect Tallinn with other parts of Estonia. Notable people Pre-1900 Michael Sittow (ca. 1469–1525), Estonian-born painter. He trained in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting, significant Flemish painter of the era. Count Jacob De la Gardie (1583–1652), statesman and a field marshal of Sweden Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie (1622–1686), a Swedish statesman and military man Jacob Johan Hastfer (1647–1695), officer and governor of the Livonia province between 1687 and 1695 Otto von Kotzebue (1787–1846), a Russian officer and navigator in the Imperial Russian Navy. He explored Oceania. Alexander Friedrich von Hueck (1802–1842), professor of anatomy at University of Tartu, a notable estophile Franz Anton Schiefner (1817–1879), a Baltic German linguist and tibetologist Julius Gottlieb Iversen (1823–1900), phalerist and professor of Greek and Latin Carl Wilhelm Hiekisch (1840–1901), geographer Edmund August Friedrich Russow (1841–1897), biologist, researcher of plant anatomy and histology Anton Hansen (pseudonym A. H. Tammsaare) (1878–1940), writer. His pentalogy Truth and Justice (Tõde ja õigus) is considered "The Estonian Novel". Marie Under (1883–1980), poet, nominated for the Nobel prize in literature multiple times Alfred Rosenberg (1893–1946), leading Nazi German ideologue, head of Reich Ministry for the