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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A 65 km round trip from Lomonosov - roughly 1 h 12 in the saddle. The stops in between: The English Park, The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin and back through The English Park. 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 16 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
S.K.Grieg's Estate «Sans Ennui» is where the day begins. Next is The English Park.
Everybody who comes to Peterhof heads for the fountains, the Grand Cascade and the gilded Samson tearing open the lion's jaws, and almost nobody walks the few hundred metres west into the English Park. That is their loss. Catherine the Great, who found Peter the Great's straight avenues and clipped hedges old-fashioned, had this park laid out from 1779 by the English gardener James Meader, in the natural landscape style then sweeping Europe: a chain of ponds, meadows, clumps of oak and lime, and paths that wander rather than march. It belongs to the World Heritage Site covering the historic centre of Saint Petersburg and its ring of palaces and estates.
Read the complete The English Park write-up.
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The English Park comes up about 16 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.
Read the complete The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 33 km into the recorded legs you reach The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin. Next is back through The English Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The English Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through The English Park, late in the day. Next is S.K.Grieg's Estate «Sans Ennui», 16 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.
Back at S.K.Grieg's Estate «Sans Ennui». That is the ride.
S.K.Grieg's Estate «Sans Ennui» → The English Park is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The English Park → The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin → back through The English Park is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The English Park → S.K.Grieg's Estate «Sans Ennui» is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.