CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Lomonosov it runs 157 km to Lomonosov; allow about 2 h 42 of riding. The stops in between: Zelenogorsky, The Village of Olgino, Moskovskaya Road and back through The Village of Olgino. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 25 km this is Saint Petersburg Imperial Shore, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Samuel Greig was a Scottish naval officer from Inverkeithing who rose to become an admiral in Catherine the Great's navy, and in 1788 he fought the Battle of Hogland against the Swedes in the Gulf of Finland, a few weeks before dying of fever at Reval. He is the S.K. Greig of the label, Samuil Karlovich in Russian style, and an estate on this coast called Sans Ennui is associated with the family, French for without boredom, a charming name for a country house. The site lies near Bolshaya Izhora, west of Lomonosov, where the land is flat, wooded and close to the water, and the Izhora river flows toward the gulf.
Read the complete S.K.Grieg's Estate «Sans Ennui» write-up.
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S.K.Grieg's Estate «Sans Ennui» is where the day begins. Next is Zelenogorsky.
The northern shore of the Gulf of Finland, west of Saint Petersburg, was for centuries the summer playground of the capital, and Zelenogorsk, which the Finns called Terijoki, was the best known of its resort towns.
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Zelenogorsky comes up 26 km in. Next is The Village of Olgino.
On the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland, just beyond the city's edge, Olgino is a place of pines, sand and low wooden houses, a seaside suburb that grew up a century and more ago as a retreat for Saint Petersburg families who wanted fresh air and the beach without travelling far. It is part of the World Heritage Site that wraps the historic city and its surroundings, which includes not only palaces but villages, parks and landscapes like this one.
Read the complete The Village of Olgino write-up.
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52 km in you reach The Village of Olgino. Next is Moskovskaya Road.
Moskovsky Prospekt is the long, straight avenue that runs south from the heart of Saint Petersburg towards Moscow, and the road you are on is the oldest piece of the highway that links the two capitals. The first paved road between them was laid in the early nineteenth century, a line of stone and gravel across marsh and forest, and it still carries the traffic that gives the two cities their rhythm. The city that lines it is a very different Saint Petersburg from the one on the postcards: wide streets, heavy Stalinist buildings and long perspectives of tower blocks.
Read the complete Moskovskaya Road write-up.
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Moskovskaya Road, about halfway. Next is back through The Village of Olgino.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Village of Olgino write-up.
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back through The Village of Olgino sits at 103 km, about halfway. Next is back through Zelenogorsky.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete S.K.Grieg's Estate «Sans Ennui» write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Zelenogorsky comes up 129 km in. Next is S.K.Grieg's Estate «Sans Ennui», 26 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete S.K.Grieg's Estate «Sans Ennui» write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
S.K.Grieg's Estate «Sans Ennui» closes the day.
S.K.Grieg's Estate «Sans Ennui» → Zelenogorsky is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zelenogorsky → The Village of Olgino is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Village of Olgino → Moskovskaya Road is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Moskovskaya Road → back through The Village of Olgino is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Village of Olgino → Back to S.K.Grieg's Estate «Sans Ennui» is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.