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 Pavlovsk it runs 401 km to Pavlovsk; allow about 7 h 03 of riding. The stops in between: Ligovsky prospect, The Park of the Farm of Prince of Oldenbur, The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» and Fort «Krasnaya Gorka». 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 41 km this is A-121 Ladoga and Sortavala, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Pavlovsk is the least showy of the great palaces around St Petersburg, and for that reason the pleasantest. The estate lies a few kilometres from Pushkin, on the Slavyanka river, in a park that spreads over hundreds of hectares of woodland, meadow and winding water. Catherine the Great gave the land to her son Paul in 1777, and the Scottish architect Charles Cameron, later joined by Brenna and others, gave it its look, with pavilions, bridges and a colonnaded Temple of Friendship set among the trees.
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«The Menagerie» is where the day begins. Next is Ligovsky prospect.
Ligovsky Prospect is one of Saint Petersburg's long avenues, running south from Nevsky Prospect near Moscow Station, through old tenements, markets and railway yards toward the edge of the city. Its name comes from Ligovo, and the avenue follows the line of the old Ligovsky Canal, dug in the early eighteenth century under Peter the Great to bring water from the southern springs to the fountains of the Summer Garden. The canal has been covered or filled over most of its route, but the street still traces it, a straight line through the city's grid.
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Ligovsky prospect comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Park of the Farm of Prince of Oldenbur.
Peterhof is the palace complex that Peter the Great built on the south shore of the Gulf of Finland, and the parks around it were developed over two centuries, taking in farms, menageries and small country estates. What you will find nearby is parkland of old trees, ponds and paths, and the sense of the wide, flat coast opening northward.
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about 71 km into the recorded legs you reach The Park of the Farm of Prince of Oldenbur. Next is The I.Repin Estate «The Penates», 40 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 Fort «Krasnaya Gorka».
On the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, near the village of Lebyazhye, the remains of Fort Krasnaya Gorka sit among pine woods and sand dunes. The fort was built in the years before the First World War as part of a chain of coastal defences protecting the approaches to St Petersburg, with heavy guns facing the sea and their counterparts on the opposite shore at Ino, in what was then the Grand Duchy of Finland. Together, the forts were designed to close the gulf to an enemy fleet.
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Fort «Krasnaya Gorka» sits at 161 km, about halfway. Next is back through The I.Repin Estate «The Penates», 40 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» write-up.
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back through The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» comes up about 267 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through The Park of the Farm of Prince of Oldenbur.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Park of the Farm of Prince of Oldenbur write-up.
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about 331 km into the recorded legs you reach back through The Park of the Farm of Prince of Oldenbur. Next is back through Ligovsky prospect.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ligovsky prospect write-up.
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back through Ligovsky prospect, late in the day. Next is «The Menagerie».
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete «The Menagerie» write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 401 km.
«The Menagerie» → Ligovsky prospect is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ligovsky prospect → The Park of the Farm of Prince of Oldenbur is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Park of the Farm of Prince of Oldenbur → The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» → Fort «Krasnaya Gorka» is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort «Krasnaya Gorka» → back through The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» → back through The Park of the Farm of Prince of Oldenbur is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Park of the Farm of Prince of Oldenbur → back through Ligovsky prospect is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ligovsky prospect → «The Menagerie» is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.