CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Pushkin it runs 223 km to Pushkin; allow about 3 h 59 of riding. It goes by way of P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha, The Barrier of Pile, Fort «Seraya Loshad» and back through The Barrier of Pile. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 34 km this is Saint Petersburg Imperial Shore, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The history of the Pushkin district begins with a Swedish manor and a Russian victory, and the story of what grew there is the story of the Russian court itself. The town was long called Tsarskoye Selo, the Tsar's Village, and the great Catherine Palace, with its long blue and white facade and gilded decoration, was the summer residence of the empresses. Inside, the Amber Room, once panelled with amber, was looted during the Second World War and has been recreated in recent decades, to the delight of visitors.
Read the complete Historical Centre of the Town of Pushkin write-up.
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Historical Centre of the Town of Pushkin is where the day begins. Next is P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha, 34 km on.
Strelna lies at the beginning of the road to Peterhof, on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, and its main feature is the Konstantinovsky Palace, begun in the reign of Peter the Great and named for a later grand duke, Konstantin. Like Peterhof, it was heavily damaged in the Second World War and later rebuilt, and in the early 2000s it was restored for the three-hundredth anniversary of Saint Petersburg. The park, with its canals and ponds, runs down toward the water, and the view across the gulf is wide and grey.
Read the complete P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha write-up.
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P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha comes up 34 km in. Next is The Barrier of Pile.
Izhora is an old name for this part of the coast. Long before Saint Petersburg, the land between the Neva and the Luga belonged to the Izhorians, a small Finnic people who fished, farmed and served as pilots on the river, and whose language survives only in a few villages. Bolshaya Izhora, the Great Izhora, is a modest settlement on the shore, with a church, some dachas and a sea wall, and the nearest town of any size is Kronstadt across the water. The point on the map sits at the edge of the gulf, in reed and low scrub, where the shallows run out for hundreds of metres and the horizon is a thin line of cranes and chimneys.
Read the complete The Barrier of Pile write-up.
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69 km in you reach The Barrier of Pile. Next is Fort «Seraya Loshad».
Along the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, west of Saint Petersburg, a low strip of pine forest and sand runs for kilometres between the road and the sea. Fort Seraya Loshad, the Grey Horse, stands in this coastal country, eleven kilometres from the village of Lebyazhye, among a group of forts built for the defence of the capital and the naval base at Kronstadt.
Read the complete Fort «Seraya Loshad» write-up.
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Fort «Seraya Loshad», about halfway. Next is back through The Barrier of Pile.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Barrier of Pile write-up.
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back through The Barrier of Pile sits at 137 km, about halfway. Next is back through P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha, 35 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha comes up 172 km in. Next is Historical Centre of the Town of Pushkin.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historical Centre of the Town of Pushkin write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Historical Centre of the Town of Pushkin closes the day.
Historical Centre of the Town of Pushkin → P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha → The Barrier of Pile is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Barrier of Pile → Fort «Seraya Loshad» is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort «Seraya Loshad» → back through The Barrier of Pile is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Barrier of Pile → back through P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha → Historical Centre of the Town of Pushkin is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.