CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 161 km round trip from Lomonosov - roughly 2 h 47 in the saddle. On the way it passes Zelenogorsky, The Village of Olgino, Moskovskaya Road and back through The Village of Olgino. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 25 km this is Saint Petersburg Imperial Shore, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Lomonosov used to be called Oranienbaum, and the name still describes it well: an orange tree, a German version of a Russian palace town. Prince Menshikov, Peter the Great's closest associate, began building it in the early eighteenth century, and later it passed to the imperial family. The town lies on the south shore of the Gulf of Finland, a few kilometres west of Peterhof, and the palaces and parks of Oranienbaum are part of the UNESCO listing for the historic centre of Saint Petersburg. The Ratkov-Rozhnov estate called Dubki belongs to the same belt of country dachas and manors, and it takes its name from the little oaks that once grew there.
Read the complete The Ratkov-Rozhnov'a Estate «Dubki» write-up.
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The Ratkov-Rozhnov'a Estate «Dubki» is where the day begins. Next is Zelenogorsky.
The northern shore of the Gulf of Finland, west of Saint Petersburg, was for centuries the summer playground of the capital, and Zelenogorsk, which the Finns called Terijoki, was the best known of its resort towns.
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Zelenogorsky comes up 26 km in. Next is The Village of Olgino.
On the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland, just beyond the city's edge, Olgino is a place of pines, sand and low wooden houses, a seaside suburb that grew up a century and more ago as a retreat for Saint Petersburg families who wanted fresh air and the beach without travelling far. It is part of the World Heritage Site that wraps the historic city and its surroundings, which includes not only palaces but villages, parks and landscapes like this one.
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52 km in you reach The Village of Olgino. Next is Moskovskaya Road.
Moskovsky Prospekt is the long, straight avenue that runs south from the heart of Saint Petersburg towards Moscow, and the road you are on is the oldest piece of the highway that links the two capitals. The first paved road between them was laid in the early nineteenth century, a line of stone and gravel across marsh and forest, and it still carries the traffic that gives the two cities their rhythm. The city that lines it is a very different Saint Petersburg from the one on the postcards: wide streets, heavy Stalinist buildings and long perspectives of tower blocks.
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Moskovskaya Road, about halfway. Next is back through The Village of Olgino.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Village of Olgino write-up.
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back through The Village of Olgino sits at 103 km, about halfway. Next is back through Zelenogorsky.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Ratkov-Rozhnov'a Estate «Dubki» write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Zelenogorsky comes up 129 km in. Next is The Ratkov-Rozhnov'a Estate «Dubki».
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Ratkov-Rozhnov'a Estate «Dubki» write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The Ratkov-Rozhnov'a Estate «Dubki» closes the day.
The Ratkov-Rozhnov'a Estate «Dubki» → Zelenogorsky is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zelenogorsky → The Village of Olgino is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Village of Olgino → Moskovskaya Road is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Moskovskaya Road → back through The Village of Olgino is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Village of Olgino → Back to The Ratkov-Rozhnov'a Estate «Dubki» is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.