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 Mariyenburg it runs 179 km to Mariyenburg; allow about 2 h 56 of riding. On the way it passes Kievskoe Highway, The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin, Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov and back through The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 32 km this is Saint Petersburg Imperial Shore, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Gatchina is one of the great imperial estates ringing St Petersburg, and the Menagerie, the Zverinets, is its wild back garden: a large walled tract of forest north of the palace that was laid out in the eighteenth century as a hunting reserve, with deer and other game kept for the court. Today it is mostly woods, ponds and paths, and on a hot day it is the coolest place within reach.
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Park «The Menagerie» is where the day begins. Next is Kievskoe Highway.
South of Saint Petersburg, the flat, damp plain of Ingria runs off towards Pskov and the old western frontier, and the Kievskoe Highway is the road that heads that way, the route to Kyiv that gave it its name.
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Kievskoe Highway comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin.
On the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, between St Petersburg and Peterhof, the old road runs past a string of palaces and estates that the Russian elite built in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to be near the sea and the court. Among them, near Strelna, stands the Trinity-Sergius Hermitage, a monastery founded in the eighteenth century as a dependency of the great Trinity Lavra of St Sergius near Moscow. It is part of the wide UNESCO listing of St Petersburg's historic centre and the monuments around it.
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about 54 km into the recorded legs you reach The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin. Next is Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov.
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.
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Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov, about halfway. Next is back through The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin sits at 101 km, about halfway. Next is back through Kievskoe Highway.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kievskoe Highway write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Kievskoe Highway comes up about 153 km into the recorded legs. Next is Park «The Menagerie».
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Park «The Menagerie» write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Park «The Menagerie» closes the day.
Park «The Menagerie» → Kievskoe Highway is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kievskoe Highway → The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin → Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov → back through The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin → back through Kievskoe Highway is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kievskoe Highway → Park «The Menagerie» is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.