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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From Pavlovsk it runs 402 km to Pavlovsk; allow about 7 h 06 of riding. It goes by way of Ligovsky prospect, The Park of the Farm of Prince of Oldenbur, The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» and Fort «Krasnaya Gorka». 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 41 km this is A-121 Ladoga and Sortavala, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Pavlovsk was a gift. In 1777 Catherine the Great gave her son Paul, the future emperor, a stretch of forest and meadow south of Saint Petersburg, and he and his wife Maria Feodorovna turned it into one of the most elegant country residences in Russia. The Scottish architect Charles Cameron designed the palace, a pale yellow building with a shallow dome and a colonnade, and the park, which spreads over some six hundred hectares, was laid out in the English landscape manner, with winding paths, little bridges and pavilions half hidden among the trees. It is among the largest landscape parks in Europe, and walking in it on a quiet morning is a joy.
Read the complete Historical Centre of the Town of Pavlovsk write-up.
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Historical Centre of the Town of Pavlovsk is where the day begins. Next is Ligovsky prospect.
Ligovsky Prospect is one of Saint Petersburg's long avenues, running south from Nevsky Prospect near Moscow Station, through old tenements, markets and railway yards toward the edge of the city. Its name comes from Ligovo, and the avenue follows the line of the old Ligovsky Canal, dug in the early eighteenth century under Peter the Great to bring water from the southern springs to the fountains of the Summer Garden. The canal has been covered or filled over most of its route, but the street still traces it, a straight line through the city's grid.
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Ligovsky prospect comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Park of the Farm of Prince of Oldenbur.
Peterhof is the palace complex that Peter the Great built on the south shore of the Gulf of Finland, and the parks around it were developed over two centuries, taking in farms, menageries and small country estates. What you will find nearby is parkland of old trees, ponds and paths, and the sense of the wide, flat coast opening northward.
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about 71 km into the recorded legs you reach The Park of the Farm of Prince of Oldenbur. Next is The I.Repin Estate «The Penates», 40 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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The I.Repin Estate «The Penates», about halfway. Next is Fort «Krasnaya Gorka».
On the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, near the village of Lebyazhye, the remains of Fort Krasnaya Gorka sit among pine woods and sand dunes. The fort was built in the years before the First World War as part of a chain of coastal defences protecting the approaches to St Petersburg, with heavy guns facing the sea and their counterparts on the opposite shore at Ino, in what was then the Grand Duchy of Finland. Together, the forts were designed to close the gulf to an enemy fleet.
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Fort «Krasnaya Gorka» sits at 160 km, about halfway. Next is back through The I.Repin Estate «The Penates», 40 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» write-up.
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back through The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» comes up about 267 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through The Park of the Farm of Prince of Oldenbur.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Park of the Farm of Prince of Oldenbur write-up.
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about 331 km into the recorded legs you reach back through The Park of the Farm of Prince of Oldenbur. Next is back through Ligovsky prospect.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ligovsky prospect write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Ligovsky prospect, late in the day. Next is Historical Centre of the Town of Pavlovsk.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historical Centre of the Town of Pavlovsk write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 402 km.
Historical Centre of the Town of Pavlovsk → Ligovsky prospect is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ligovsky prospect → The Park of the Farm of Prince of Oldenbur is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Park of the Farm of Prince of Oldenbur → The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» → Fort «Krasnaya Gorka» is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort «Krasnaya Gorka» → back through The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» is 66 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 of the Farm of Prince of Oldenbur is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Park of the Farm of Prince of Oldenbur → back through Ligovsky prospect is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ligovsky prospect → Historical Centre of the Town of Pavlovsk is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.