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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A 182 km round trip from Lomonosov - roughly 3 h 11 in the saddle. It goes by way of The Park «Nearest Dubki», The I.Repin Estate «The Penates», The E.I.Lopukhina's and back through The I.Repin Estate «The Penates». The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 38 km this is Saint Petersburg Imperial Shore, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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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Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov is where the day begins. Next is The Park «Nearest Dubki».
Dubki simply means little oaks, a common name for a patch of woodland, and the ride titles connect this spot with the Oranienbaum Springboard, which is the south shore, across the water, where a Soviet bridgehead held out through the siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944 while the city itself was encircled.
Read the complete The Park «Nearest Dubki» write-up.
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The Park «Nearest Dubki» comes up about 38 km into the recorded legs. Next is The I.Repin Estate «The Penates», 25 km on.
In 1903 the painter Ilya Repin, the most famous Russian artist of his day, moved to a wooden house in the village of Kuokkala on the Gulf of Finland, which he named the Penates, after the Roman household gods. He lived and worked there until his death in 1930, and after Finnish independence in 1917, he found himself living abroad, refusing invitations to return to the Soviet Union. The house, with its glass-roofed studio and eccentric architecture, was destroyed in the Second World War and rebuilt afterwards, and it is now a museum with many of his paintings and possessions.
Read the complete The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» write-up.
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about 62 km into the recorded legs you reach The I.Repin Estate «The Penates». Next is The E.I.Lopukhina's, 26 km on.
North of Saint Petersburg's centre, the city thins out into a mix of suburbs, dachas, pine woods and the long marshy shores of the Karelian Isthmus.
Read the complete The E.I.Lopukhina's write-up.
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The E.I.Lopukhina's, about halfway. Next is back through The I.Repin Estate «The Penates», 26 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» sits at 103 km, about halfway. Next is back through The Park «Nearest Dubki».
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Park «Nearest Dubki» write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through The Park «Nearest Dubki» comes up about 141 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov closes the day.
Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov → The Park «Nearest Dubki» is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Park «Nearest Dubki» → The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» → The E.I.Lopukhina's is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The E.I.Lopukhina's → back through The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» → back through The Park «Nearest Dubki» is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Park «Nearest Dubki» → Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.