CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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107 km from Kronstadt to Kronstadt, about 2 h 33 of riding. On the way it passes Fort «Totleben», The Cemetery of the Village of Komarovo and back through Fort «Totleben». It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 27 km this is Saint Petersburg Imperial Shore, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Peter the Great wanted a fortress on the sea, and in the first years of the eighteenth century he got one, built on a sandbank and a few small islets in the shallows off Kotlin Island. Fort Peter I belongs to the chain of forts that grew from that first idea over the next two centuries, strung along the channels like beads on a thread, each with its own gun batteries, barracks and harbours. Together they formed a barrier that no enemy fleet cared to test, and during the Crimean War, when British and French ships came to the gulf, they thought better of attacking.
Read the complete Fort «Peter I» write-up.
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Fort «Peter I» is where the day begins. Next is Fort «Totleben».
Eduard Totleben was the engineer who held Sevastopol in the Crimean War, and the Russian navy named a fort after him in the ring of defences that guards Saint Petersburg from the sea. Fort Totleben, along with its neighbour Fort Peter I, belongs to the northern line of fortifications built on shoals in the Gulf of Finland, in the nineteenth century, to protect the approaches to Kronstadt and the capital.
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Fort «Totleben» comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Cemetery of the Village of Komarovo.
Anna Akhmatova is buried here. The cemetery of Komarovo is a small, quiet graveyard among pines on the Karelian Isthmus, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland about forty kilometres north-west of Saint Petersburg, and her grave, a simple stone with a cross, is the one that people come to find. She died in 1966, and loved the little cottage she was given in the village, which she called her Booth. The cemetery also holds the grave of the scholar Dmitry Likhachev, and a scattering of writers, artists and scientists who spent their summers in this dacha colony, once reserved for the Soviet cultural elite.
Read the complete The Cemetery of the Village of Komarovo write-up.
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about 53 km into the recorded legs you reach The Cemetery of the Village of Komarovo. Next is back through Fort «Totleben».
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort «Totleben» write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort «Totleben», late in the day. Next is Fort «Peter I».
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort «Peter I» write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Fort «Peter I». That is the ride.
Fort «Peter I» → Fort «Totleben» is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort «Totleben» → The Cemetery of the Village of Komarovo is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Cemetery of the Village of Komarovo → back through Fort «Totleben» is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort «Totleben» → Fort «Peter I» is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.