Why this ride
177 km from Pavlovsk to Pavlovsk, about 3 h 16 of riding. The stops in between: Park «The Menagerie», Kievskoe Highway, The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin and back through Kievskoe Highway.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Yu.P.Samoilova's Villa and The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 177 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 16
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Yu.P.Samoilova's Villa
Countess Yulia Samoilova is the sort of figure that the nineteenth century produced in numbers: rich, independent, beautiful, fond of artists and impatient with convention. She was a society woman who spent much of her life abroad, especially in Italy, and who is remembered in Russian painting as the muse of a famous artist. A villa on the southern edge of Saint Petersburg's estates bears her name, and it sits in the quiet country between Pavlovsk and Gatchina, in a landscape of old parks, small rivers and pine woods.
Read the complete Yu.P.Samoilova's Villa write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Yu.P.Samoilova's Villa is where the day begins. Next is Park «The Menagerie».
2. Park «The Menagerie»
Gatchina is one of the great imperial estates ringing St Petersburg, and the Menagerie, the Zverinets, is its wild back garden: a large walled tract of forest north of the palace that was laid out in the eighteenth century as a hunting reserve, with deer and other game kept for the court. Today it is mostly woods, ponds and paths, and on a hot day it is the coolest place within reach.
Read the complete Park «The Menagerie» write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Park «The Menagerie» comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kievskoe Highway.
3. Kievskoe Highway
South of Saint Petersburg, the flat, damp plain of Ingria runs off towards Pskov and the old western frontier, and the Kievskoe Highway is the road that heads that way, the route to Kyiv that gave it its name.
Read the complete Kievskoe Highway write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 58 km into the recorded legs you reach Kievskoe Highway. Next is The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin.
4. The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin
On the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, between St Petersburg and Peterhof, the old road runs past a string of palaces and estates that the Russian elite built in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to be near the sea and the court. Among them, near Strelna, stands the Trinity-Sergius Hermitage, a monastery founded in the eighteenth century as a dependency of the great Trinity Lavra of St Sergius near Moscow. It is part of the wide UNESCO listing of St Petersburg's historic centre and the monuments around it.
Read the complete The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin, about halfway. Next is back through Kievskoe Highway.
5. back through Kievskoe Highway
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kievskoe Highway write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Kievskoe Highway sits at 102 km, about halfway. Next is back through Park «The Menagerie».
6. back through Park «The Menagerie»
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Park «The Menagerie» write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Park «The Menagerie» comes up about 145 km into the recorded legs. Next is Yu.P.Samoilova's Villa, 25 km on.
7. Yu.P.Samoilova's Villa
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Yu.P.Samoilova's Villa write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Yu.P.Samoilova's Villa closes the day.
Leg by leg
Yu.P.Samoilova's Villa to Park «The Menagerie»
Yu.P.Samoilova's Villa → Park «The Menagerie» is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Park «The Menagerie» to Kievskoe Highway
Park «The Menagerie» → Kievskoe Highway is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kievskoe Highway to The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin
Kievskoe Highway → The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin to back through Kievskoe Highway
The Monastery Troitse-Sergieva Pustin → back through Kievskoe Highway is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kievskoe Highway to back through Park «The Menagerie»
back through Kievskoe Highway → back through Park «The Menagerie» is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Park «The Menagerie» to Yu.P.Samoilova's Villa
back through Park «The Menagerie» → Yu.P.Samoilova's Villa is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.