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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231 km from Peterhof to Peterhof, about 4 h 16 of riding. On the way it passes The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya, The Babolovsky Park, Koltushskoe Highway and back through The Babolovsky Park. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
44 km on A-121 Ladoga and Sortavala.
For about 38 km this is A-121 Ladoga and Sortavala, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it. Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
Peterhof is the palace complex that Peter the Great built on the south shore of the Gulf of Finland, and the parks around it were developed over two centuries, taking in farms, menageries and small country estates. What you will find nearby is parkland of old trees, ponds and paths, and the sense of the wide, flat coast opening northward.
Read the complete The Park of the Farm of Prince of Oldenbur write-up.
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The Park of the Farm of Prince of Oldenbur is where the day begins. 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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The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya comes up about 44 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Babolovsky Park.
Inside a ruined palace in a quiet park south of Saint Petersburg sits one of the strangest objects in Russia: a gigantic bath carved from a single block of granite, more than five metres across, made in the early nineteenth century by the stonemason Samson Sukhanov for the Babolovsky palace. The palace, a small Gothic style residence built for Catherine the Great's favourite Prince Potemkin, was later rebuilt and then ruined during the Second World War, but the bath was too heavy to move and remains inside the shell of the building.
Read the complete The Babolovsky Park write-up.
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about 76 km into the recorded legs you reach The Babolovsky Park. 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 The Babolovsky Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Babolovsky Park write-up.
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back through The Babolovsky Park sits at 141 km, about halfway. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya comes up about 185 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Park of the Farm of Prince of Oldenbur.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Park of the Farm of Prince of Oldenbur write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The Park of the Farm of Prince of Oldenbur closes the day.
The Park of the Farm of Prince of Oldenbur → The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya → The Babolovsky Park is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Babolovsky Park → Koltushskoe Highway is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Koltushskoe Highway → back through The Babolovsky Park is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Babolovsky Park → back through The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Palace and Park of the Mikhailovskaya → The Park of the Farm of Prince of Oldenbur is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.