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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217 km from Lomonosov to Lomonosov, about 3 h 11 of riding. On the way it passes Ropshinskoe Highway, The Park «Nearest Dubki», The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» and back through The Park «Nearest Dubki». The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 27 km this is Saint Petersburg Imperial Shore, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Somewhere between Bolshaya Izhora and Lomonosov, along the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, stood a summer house known as the Datcha of the Hospital. The name suggests one of the many country retreats built along this coast in the nineteenth century, when the road west from St Petersburg was lined with the estates of the aristocracy, merchants and institutions. Few of these houses survive intact, and the exact remains of this one are hard to pin down; it is better to take it as a pause on one of the most historic stretches of shore in Russia.
Read the complete The Datcha of the Hospital write-up.
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The Datcha of the Hospital is where the day begins. Next is Ropshinskoe Highway.
Ropshinskoe Highway is the road that leaves the Gulf of Finland behind at Peterhof and climbs gently south towards Ropsha, and for a ride that starts and ends here it is a good place to look at a map and understand the ground. You are on the edge of the Izhora upland, a low limestone step above the coast. It never looks like much from the saddle, a few tens of metres of rise through birch and pine, but in this flat country that step decided who could see whom, and that mattered enormously in the last century.
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Ropshinskoe Highway comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Park «Nearest Dubki».
Dubki simply means little oaks, a common name for a patch of woodland, and the ride titles connect this spot with the Oranienbaum Springboard, which is the south shore, across the water, where a Soviet bridgehead held out through the siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944 while the city itself was encircled.
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about 84 km into the recorded legs you reach The Park «Nearest Dubki». Next is The I.Repin Estate «The Penates», 25 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.
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The I.Repin Estate «The Penates», about halfway. Next is back through The Park «Nearest Dubki».
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Park «Nearest Dubki» write-up.
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back through The Park «Nearest Dubki» sits at 100 km, about halfway. Next is back through Ropshinskoe Highway.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ropshinskoe Highway write-up.
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back through Ropshinskoe Highway comes up about 189 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Datcha of the Hospital.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Datcha of the Hospital write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The Datcha of the Hospital closes the day.
The Datcha of the Hospital → Ropshinskoe Highway is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ropshinskoe Highway → The Park «Nearest Dubki» is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Park «Nearest Dubki» → The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» → back through The Park «Nearest Dubki» is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Park «Nearest Dubki» → back through Ropshinskoe Highway is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ropshinskoe Highway → The Datcha of the Hospital is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.