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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
A 256 km round trip from Pavlovsk - roughly 4 h 05 in the saddle. It goes by way of The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag, The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» and back through The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag. The line favours views over speed.
Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 64 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
Pavlovsk is among the largest landscape parks in Europe, and it began as a gift. In 1777 Catherine the Great gave the land to her son Paul, and he and his wife built a palace and a park here, which was designed by the Scottish architect Charles Cameron and then expanded over decades. The park covers more than five hundred hectares, and its mix of woods, meadows, rivers and pavilions is a model of the English landscape style adapted to the Russian plain.
Read the complete The Park «Alexandrova Datchs» write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The Park «Alexandrova Datchs» is where the day begins. Next is The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag.
Gostilitsy is a village on the Izhora Upland, west of Ropsha and south of Peterhof, and it is one of those places near St Petersburg where the imperial past hides behind fences and overgrown trees. The estate here is associated with Alexei Razumovsky, the Ukrainian Cossack singer who rose to become the favourite and, by many accounts, the secret husband of Empress Elizabeth in the eighteenth century. The palace and park ensemble that grew up around the manor included a house, a church, ponds and landscaped grounds fed by springs, and it is listed among the monuments of the historic centre of St Petersburg and related groups, a UNESCO site that includes many of the palaces and estates around the city.
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 Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag comes up about 54 km into the recorded legs. Next is The I.Repin Estate «The Penates», 62 km on.
In 1903 the painter Ilya Repin, the most famous Russian artist of his day, moved to a wooden house in the village of Kuokkala on the Gulf of Finland, which he named the Penates, after the Roman household gods. He lived and worked there until his death in 1930, and after Finnish independence in 1917, he found himself living abroad, refusing invitations to return to the Soviet Union. The house, with its glass-roofed studio and eccentric architecture, was destroyed in the Second World War and rebuilt afterwards, and it is now a museum with many of his paintings and possessions.
Read the complete The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 130 km into the recorded legs you reach The I.Repin Estate «The Penates». Next is back through 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.
back through The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag, late in the day. Next is The Park «Alexandrova Datchs».
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Park «Alexandrova Datchs» write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at The Park «Alexandrova Datchs». That is the ride.
The Park «Alexandrova Datchs» → The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag → The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» → back through The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag is 73 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag → The Park «Alexandrova Datchs» is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.