CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 294 km round trip from Russko-Vysotskoye - roughly 5 h 41 in the saddle. The stops in between: The Palace and Park Ensembles of the Town, The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya, The Park «Dubki» and Lindulovskaya Roshcha. The line favours views over speed.
This part of the ride is 36 km of A-121 Ladoga and Sortavala.
Ropsha is one of those places where the scenery is gentle and the history is anything but. The village sits on the low Izhora Upland southwest of St Petersburg, between Krasnoe Selo and the coast road at Lomonosov, and the palace that gives the estate its name looks down over a chain of spring-fed ponds and a slow, wooded park. It was here, in July 1762, that the freshly deposed Emperor Peter III was held after his wife Catherine seized the throne, and here that he died a few days later under circumstances nobody at court cared to explain. Catherine became "the Great"; Ropsha became a footnote with a chill on it.
Read the complete The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag write-up.
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The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag is where the day begins. Next is The Palace and Park Ensembles of the Town.
Between 1941 and 1944 Tsarskoye Selo lay behind German lines, and when the Red Army came back the Catherine Palace was a shell. The Amber Room's panels had vanished, the park trees had been cut for firewood, and most of the interiors were ash. The restoration that followed, and the new Amber Room that finally reopened in 2003, make this one of the most remarkable rebuilding jobs in Europe. The town, now called Pushkin after the poet who studied at its Lyceum, is part of the UNESCO listing for the historic centre of Saint Petersburg, and the ensemble of palaces, pavilions and parks around it is the reason to come.
Read the complete The Palace and Park Ensembles of the Town write-up.
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The Palace and Park Ensembles of the Town comes up 36 km in. 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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72 km in you reach The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya. Next is The Park «Dubki».
Peter the Great loved oak, because oak meant ships, and the little park of Dubki, whose name means little oaks, is said to date back to the trees he ordered planted near his arms-making settlement at Sestroretsk. Whatever the truth of the exact planting, the park is a pleasant tract of old trees on sandy soil, with paths, ponds and the slow rhythm of a town that has long been a seaside resort. Sestroretsk, on the Gulf of Finland, became a fashionable spa at the end of the nineteenth century, and its shore of shallow water and fine sand still draws crowds in summer.
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The Park «Dubki», about halfway. Next is Lindulovskaya Roshcha.
Out on the Karelian Isthmus, in a landscape of pine, birch and sandy soil, stands a grove of larches that looks entirely out of place. The Lindulovskaya Grove was planted in 1738 by an admiral, Fyodor Soimonov, who wanted to grow shipbuilding timber for the Russian navy, and he chose Siberian larch, a durable and rot-resistant wood. Some of the trees are nearly three centuries old and very tall, and the grove is protected as a natural monument, the oldest planted larch forest in Russia. Walking among the trunks, with their orange-grey bark, and the soft light filtering through the needles, is surprisingly moving.
Read the complete Lindulovskaya Roshcha write-up.
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Lindulovskaya Roshcha sits at 144 km, about halfway. Next is back through The Park «Dubki».
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Read the complete The Park «Dubki» write-up.
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back through The Park «Dubki» comes up 180 km in. 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.
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216 km in you reach back through The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya. Next is back through The Palace and Park Ensembles of the Town.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Palace and Park Ensembles of the Town write-up.
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back through The Palace and Park Ensembles of the Town, late in the day. Next is The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 294 km.
The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag → The Palace and Park Ensembles of the Town is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Palace and Park Ensembles of the Town → The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya → The Park «Dubki» is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Park «Dubki» → Lindulovskaya Roshcha is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lindulovskaya Roshcha → back through The Park «Dubki» is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Park «Dubki» → back through The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya is 37 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 Palace and Park Ensembles of the Town is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Palace and Park Ensembles of the Town → The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.