Why this ride
From Pushkin it runs 64 km to Pushkin; allow about 1 h 20 of riding. The stops in between: Volkhonskoe Highway, The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin and back through Volkhonskoe Highway.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
The Otdelny Park and The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 64 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 20
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. The Otdelny Park
Pavlovsk and Pushkin sit side by side on the plain south of Saint Petersburg, and both grew from the imperial taste for country palaces. Pushkin was once Tsarskoye Selo, the Tsar's Village, where Catherine the Great had a palace of blue and white with a facade that stretches for hundreds of metres, and where the Amber Room once stood. Pavlovsk was a smaller palace for her son Paul, set in one of the largest landscape parks in Europe. The name means separate or detached, and it points to a part of the landscape set apart from the main royal grounds.
Read the complete The Otdelny Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
The Otdelny Park is where the day begins. Next is Volkhonskoe Highway.
2. Volkhonskoe Highway
The Volkhonskoe Highway is not a scenic mountain road but a historic route on the southern edge of Saint Petersburg, running out from the city towards Gorelovo and the old road to Krasnoye Selo. It belongs to the network of eighteenth and nineteenth century highways that linked the capital with the imperial residences and military camps to the south and west, and it is included in the wider protected area of the historic centre of Saint Petersburg and its related monuments. What you see today is a mix of suburban growth, open fields and stretches of tree-lined road, with the ghosts of history underneath.
Read the complete Volkhonskoe Highway write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Volkhonskoe Highway comes up about 16 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin.
3. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 32 km into the recorded legs you reach The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin. Next is back through Volkhonskoe Highway.
4. back through Volkhonskoe Highway
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Volkhonskoe Highway write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Volkhonskoe Highway, late in the day. Next is The Otdelny Park.
5. The Otdelny Park
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Otdelny Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at The Otdelny Park. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
The Otdelny Park to Volkhonskoe Highway
The Otdelny Park → Volkhonskoe Highway is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Volkhonskoe Highway to The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin
Volkhonskoe Highway → The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin to back through Volkhonskoe Highway
The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin → back through Volkhonskoe Highway is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Volkhonskoe Highway to The Otdelny Park
back through Volkhonskoe Highway → The Otdelny Park is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.