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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172 km from Peterhof to Peterhof, about 3 h 16 of riding. It goes by way of Krasnoe Selo, Railway Saint Petersburg - Pavlovsk, Koltushskoe Highway and back through Railway Saint Petersburg - Pavlovsk. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
For about 28 km this is Saint Petersburg Imperial Shore, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it — expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
28 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it. Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through.
Alexandria Park is one part of the great Peterhof estate that most visitors skip, which is a good reason to visit it. Peterhof is known for its Grand Cascade and golden statues, the fountains that Peter the Great designed to rival Versailles, and for the crowds that pack the Lower Park in summer. Alexandria, on the other side of the road, is quieter, with winding paths, ponds, old oaks and a collection of small romantic buildings set among the trees.
Read the complete The Park «Alexandria» write-up.
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The Park «Alexandria» is where the day begins. Next is Krasnoe Selo.
Readers of Anna Karenina will know Krasnoye Selo, even if they have never been within a thousand kilometres of it. It was here, at the summer camp of the imperial guards, that Tolstoy set the officers' steeplechase in which Vronsky rides his mare Frou-Frou to disaster in front of the court. For more than a century, from the early nineteenth century until the revolution, the guards regiments of the Russian army gathered each summer in this area south-west of Saint Petersburg for manoeuvres, parades and horse races, and the tsar and the court came to watch. It is listed as one of the monuments associated with the historic centre of Saint Petersburg.
Read the complete Krasnoe Selo write-up.
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Krasnoe Selo comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. Next is Railway Saint Petersburg - Pavlovsk.
Pavlovsk station has a story that every Russian railway enthusiast can tell. The line from Saint Petersburg to Tsarskoye Selo opened in the late 1830s, the first public railway in the country, and it was soon extended to Pavlovsk, where a grand station building became a place of concerts and summer entertainment. Johann Strauss the younger came to conduct there in the nineteenth century, and the rich of the capital rode out in their finery to hear him. The railway still runs, though the trains are electric and the concert hall has long gone quiet.
Read the complete Railway Saint Petersburg - Pavlovsk write-up.
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about 56 km into the recorded legs you reach Railway Saint Petersburg - Pavlovsk. Next is Koltushskoe Highway.
East of Saint Petersburg, the Koltushskoe highway runs through suburban sprawl and countryside toward the village of Koltushi, and it belongs to a memorial landscape that ties the whole region together: the Green Belt of Glory, a chain of monuments marking the defensive line around Leningrad during the siege of 1941 to 1944, when nearly nine hundred days of blockade cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians. Monuments, steles and memorials stand along the roads where the front lines and supply routes ran, including the Road of Life across Lake Ladoga.
Read the complete Koltushskoe Highway write-up.
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Koltushskoe Highway, about halfway. Next is back through Railway Saint Petersburg - Pavlovsk.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Railway Saint Petersburg - Pavlovsk write-up.
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back through Railway Saint Petersburg - Pavlovsk sits at 105 km, about halfway. Next is back through Krasnoe Selo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Krasnoe Selo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Krasnoe Selo comes up about 144 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Park «Alexandria».
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Park «Alexandria» write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The Park «Alexandria» closes the day.
The Park «Alexandria» → Krasnoe Selo is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Krasnoe Selo → Railway Saint Petersburg - Pavlovsk is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Railway Saint Petersburg - Pavlovsk → Koltushskoe Highway is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Koltushskoe Highway → back through Railway Saint Petersburg - Pavlovsk is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Railway Saint Petersburg - Pavlovsk → back through Krasnoe Selo is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Krasnoe Selo → The Park «Alexandria» is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.