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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From Lomonosov it runs 174 km to Lomonosov; allow about 3 h 03 of riding. It goes by way of The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag, Krasnoe Selo, Railway Saint Petersburg - Pavlovsk and back through Krasnoe Selo. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Water arrives beside the road and stays for 24 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go — slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did.
25 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.
Oranienbaum is the old name of Lomonosov, and the story of the town begins with a man who liked to build on a grand scale. Alexander Menshikov, one of Peter the Great's closest friends, laid out a palace here on the south shore of the Gulf of Finland in the early eighteenth century, and the place became a favourite residence of the imperial family. Today its park and palaces are part of the Saint Petersburg ensemble that UNESCO listed in 1990.
Read the complete The Zubov's Estate «Otrada» write-up.
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The Zubov's Estate «Otrada» 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.
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The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 58 km into the recorded legs you reach Krasnoe Selo. 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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Railway Saint Petersburg - Pavlovsk, about halfway. Next is back through Krasnoe Selo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Krasnoe Selo write-up.
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back through Krasnoe Selo sits at 112 km, about halfway. 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 comes up about 145 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Zubov's Estate «Otrada».
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Zubov's Estate «Otrada» write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The Zubov's Estate «Otrada» closes the day.
The Zubov's Estate «Otrada» → The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag → Krasnoe Selo is 29 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 → back through Krasnoe Selo is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Krasnoe Selo → back through The Palace and Park Ensemble of the Villag is 29 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 Zubov's Estate «Otrada» is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.