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 245 km round trip from Strel'na - roughly 4 h 04 in the saddle. It goes by way of Dudergofskaya Elevation, The Ensemble of the Zinoviev's Datcha, Schlisselburg. Old Ladoga and New Ladoga c and back through The Ensemble of the Zinoviev's Datcha. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 39 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
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.
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The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin is where the day begins. Next is Dudergofskaya Elevation.
The land around St Petersburg is almost perfectly flat, so any hill gets noticed. The Duderhof Heights, a pair of wooded hills rising south of the city near Krasnoye Selo, are the highest ground for many kilometres around, with the higher one, Voronya Gora or Crow Hill, reaching a little under two hundred metres above sea level. From the top, on a clear day, you can see the gilded domes of the city and the waters of the Gulf of Finland.
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Dudergofskaya Elevation comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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about 79 km into the recorded legs you reach The Ensemble of the Zinoviev's Datcha. Next is Schlisselburg. Old Ladoga and New Ladoga c, 34 km on.
The fortress at Shlisselburg is built on an island in the river, at the very spot where the Neva leaves Lake Ladoga, and whoever held it held the water road between the Baltic and the heart of Russia. The Novgorodians built the first wooden walls in 1323, and called the place Oreshek, which means little nut, after the island's shape. Over the next four centuries it passed between Russians and Swedes, until in 1702 Peter the Great stormed it on his way to the sea, and renamed it Schlusselburg, the key fortress, a key that would unlock the Baltic. Within a year he had founded Saint Petersburg downstream.
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Schlisselburg. Old Ladoga and New Ladoga c, about halfway. Next is back through The Ensemble of the Zinoviev's Datcha.
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Read the complete The Ensemble of the Zinoviev's Datcha write-up.
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back through The Ensemble of the Zinoviev's Datcha sits at 134 km, about halfway. Next is back through Dudergofskaya Elevation.
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Read the complete Dudergofskaya Elevation write-up.
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back through Dudergofskaya Elevation comes up about 218 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin closes the day.
The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin → Dudergofskaya Elevation is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dudergofskaya Elevation → The Ensemble of the Zinoviev's Datcha is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Ensemble of the Zinoviev's Datcha → Schlisselburg. Old Ladoga and New Ladoga c is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Schlisselburg. Old Ladoga and New Ladoga c → back through The Ensemble of the Zinoviev's Datcha is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Ensemble of the Zinoviev's Datcha → back through Dudergofskaya Elevation is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dudergofskaya Elevation → The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.