CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 163 km round trip from Strel'na - roughly 3 h 11 in the saddle. On the way it passes The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya, Yukkovskaya Elevation, The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» and back through Yukkovskaya Elevation. The line favours views over speed.
This part of the ride is 25 km of A-121 Ladoga and Sortavala.
Strelna is where Peter the Great first looked at the Gulf of Finland from the south shore and decided that his new capital needed a country palace worthy of Versailles. He began a residence here in the early eighteenth century, before settling on Peterhof, a few kilometres to the west, and the estate was later developed by his daughter Elizabeth and then given to the Grand Duke Konstantin, whose name it still bears in the Konstantinovsky Palace. In the 2000s the palace was restored and today it is used for state receptions and conferences, with the grounds open to visitors on a part-time basis. The historic centre of the village is a small area of old streets near the shore.
Read the complete Historical Centre of the Village of Streln write-up.
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Historical Centre of the Village of Streln is where the day begins. Next is The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya.
Carlo Rossi did not design a palace so much as a piece of a city. Between 1819 and 1825 he built the Mikhailovsky Palace for Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, younger brother of Alexander I, and at the same time laid out the square in front of it and the streets leading to it, so that the façades all answer one another. Today the palace houses the Russian Museum, which holds one of the greatest collections of Russian art anywhere, from medieval icons through Repin's huge canvases to Malevich and the avant-garde. Behind it the Mikhailovsky Garden runs down to the Moika, shaded and calm in the middle of the city.
Read the complete The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya write-up.
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The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya comes up 26 km in. Next is Yukkovskaya Elevation.
The Karelian Isthmus, north of Saint Petersburg, was Finnish until 1940, and the place names still carry the echo: Pargolovo, Levashovo, Kuokkala, now called Repino. The Yukki Heights, or Yukkovskaya Elevation, are among the higher ground on this stretch, a ridge of sandy hills and pine forest scattered with summer houses. Many of the datchas date from the late nineteenth century, when wealthy Petersburgers began to build wooden villas with carved trim and glassed verandas among the pines.
Read the complete Yukkovskaya Elevation write-up.
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52 km in you reach Yukkovskaya Elevation. Next is The I.Repin Estate «The Penates», 26 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 back through Yukkovskaya Elevation.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Yukkovskaya Elevation write-up.
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back through Yukkovskaya Elevation sits at 103 km, about halfway. Next is back through The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya comes up 129 km in. Next is Historical Centre of the Village of Streln.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historical Centre of the Village of Streln write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Historical Centre of the Village of Streln closes the day.
Historical Centre of the Village of Streln → The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya → Yukkovskaya Elevation is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Yukkovskaya Elevation → The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» → back through Yukkovskaya Elevation is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Yukkovskaya Elevation → back through The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya → Historical Centre of the Village of Streln is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.