CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 167 km round trip from Krasnoye Selo - roughly 2 h 53 in the saddle. It goes by way of The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin, Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov, Zelenogorsky and back through Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 25 km this is Saint Petersburg Imperial Shore, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The land around St Petersburg is almost perfectly flat, so any hill gets noticed. The Duderhof Heights, a pair of wooded hills rising south of the city near Krasnoye Selo, are the highest ground for many kilometres around, with the higher one, Voronya Gora or Crow Hill, reaching a little under two hundred metres above sea level. From the top, on a clear day, you can see the gilded domes of the city and the waters of the Gulf of Finland.
Read the complete Dudergofskaya Elevation write-up.
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Dudergofskaya Elevation is where the day begins. Next is The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin.
On the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, between St Petersburg and Peterhof, the old road runs past a string of palaces and estates that the Russian elite built in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to be near the sea and the court. Among them, near Strelna, stands the Trinity-Sergius Hermitage, a monastery founded in the eighteenth century as a dependency of the great Trinity Lavra of St Sergius near Moscow. It is part of the wide UNESCO listing of St Petersburg's historic centre and the monuments around it.
Read the complete The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin write-up.
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The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin comes up 25 km in. Next is Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov.
Lomonosov was called Oranienbaum until 1948, and its history is a story of ambition. Prince Alexander Menshikov, Peter the Great's close friend and favourite, began a grand palace here in the early eighteenth century, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, and the name, meaning orange tree, came from its greenhouses. Later, the estate passed to the imperial family, and in the 1760s Catherine the Great had the Chinese Palace built in the park, a small, richly decorated pavilion with painted ceilings and exotic interiors. The ensemble is part of the UNESCO listing of Saint Petersburg and related monuments.
Read the complete Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov write-up.
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50 km in you reach Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov. Next is Zelenogorsky.
The northern shore of the Gulf of Finland, west of Saint Petersburg, was for centuries the summer playground of the capital, and Zelenogorsk, which the Finns called Terijoki, was the best known of its resort towns.
Read the complete Zelenogorsky write-up.
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Zelenogorsky, about halfway. Next is back through Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov sits at 101 km, about halfway. Next is back through The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin comes up 126 km in. Next is Dudergofskaya Elevation.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dudergofskaya Elevation write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Dudergofskaya Elevation closes the day.
Dudergofskaya Elevation → The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin → Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov → Zelenogorsky is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zelenogorsky → back through Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov → back through The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin → Dudergofskaya Elevation is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.