The movie's title, with its religious overtones, is a literalreference to the railway station where Leo Tolstoy died a few days after leaving his wife and home, presumably to become a wandering ascetic (though he brought his personal physician with him).
Victor Hugo placed this thought into our collective consciousness in reflection of the days of the French Revolution and the Napleonic era, but it has since been such translated and paraphrased from the literal statement many times over in reference to innovation.