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 154 km to Pavlovsk; allow about 3 h 14 of riding. It goes by way of The Ensemble of the Zinoviev's Datcha, The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya, Yukkovskaya Elevation and back through The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya. The line favours views over speed.
22 km on A-121 Ladoga and Sortavala.
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.
Read the complete «The Menagerie» write-up.
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«The Menagerie» is where the day begins. Next is The Ensemble of the Zinoviev's Datcha.
Here the Neva is a working river, broad and fast, carrying barges and the outflow of Lake Ladoga past factories and housing blocks on its way to the city. Yet on the left bank near Ust-Izhora, among the industry, survive the traces of a much older riverside life: the country houses, datchas in the old aristocratic sense, that Saint Petersburg's wealthy families built along the Neva in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with parks running down to the water. The ensemble of the Zinoviev datcha is one of them, included in the long list of estates, parks and buildings that make up the World Heritage Site around the historic centre of Saint Petersburg.
Read the complete The Ensemble of the Zinoviev's Datcha write-up.
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The Ensemble of the Zinoviev's Datcha comes up about 33 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya.
Carlo Rossi did not design a palace so much as a piece of a city. Between 1819 and 1825 he built the Mikhailovsky Palace for Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, younger brother of Alexander I, and at the same time laid out the square in front of it and the streets leading to it, so that the façades all answer one another. Today the palace houses the Russian Museum, which holds one of the greatest collections of Russian art anywhere, from medieval icons through Repin's huge canvases to Malevich and the avant-garde. Behind it the Mikhailovsky Garden runs down to the Moika, shaded and calm in the middle of the city.
Read the complete The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya write-up.
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about 55 km into the recorded legs you reach The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya. Next is Yukkovskaya Elevation.
The Karelian Isthmus, north of Saint Petersburg, was Finnish until 1940, and the place names still carry the echo: Pargolovo, Levashovo, Kuokkala, now called Repino. The Yukki Heights, or Yukkovskaya Elevation, are among the higher ground on this stretch, a ridge of sandy hills and pine forest scattered with summer houses. Many of the datchas date from the late nineteenth century, when wealthy Petersburgers began to build wooden villas with carved trim and glassed verandas among the pines.
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Yukkovskaya Elevation, about halfway. Next is back through The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya sits at 99 km, about halfway. Next is back through The Ensemble of the Zinoviev's Datcha.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Ensemble of the Zinoviev's Datcha write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through The Ensemble of the Zinoviev's Datcha comes up about 120 km into the recorded legs. 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 Menagerie» closes the day.
«The Menagerie» → The Ensemble of the Zinoviev's Datcha is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Ensemble of the Zinoviev's Datcha → The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya → Yukkovskaya Elevation is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Yukkovskaya Elevation → back through The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya → back through The Ensemble of the Zinoviev's Datcha is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Ensemble of the Zinoviev's Datcha → «The Menagerie» is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.