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.
From Pavlovsk it runs 350 km to Pavlovsk; allow about 5 h 03 of riding. The stops in between: Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov, The Road of Life and back through Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Yu.P.Samoilova's Villa is where the day begins. Next is Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov.
Lomonosov was called Oranienbaum until 1948, and its history is a story of ambition. Prince Alexander Menshikov, Peter the Great's close friend and favourite, began a grand palace here in the early eighteenth century, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, and the name, meaning orange tree, came from its greenhouses. Later, the estate passed to the imperial family, and in the 1760s Catherine the Great had the Chinese Palace built in the park, a small, richly decorated pavilion with painted ceilings and exotic interiors. The ensemble is part of the UNESCO listing of Saint Petersburg and related monuments.
Read the complete Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov write-up.
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Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov comes up about 61 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Road of Life.
On the south-eastern shore of Lake Ladoga, east of Saint Petersburg, a road ends at the water. This is the start of the Road of Life, the supply route across the ice that kept Leningrad alive during the siege of 1941 to 1944. The siege lasted 872 days, from September 1941 to January 1944, and it cut the city off from nearly everything except the lake. In the first winter, when Ladoga froze, trucks and horse-drawn sledges began to cross the ice with food and fuel, and on the return journey they carried out women, children and the sick. Lorries broke through the ice, and bombing and artillery attacked the route, but it kept going.
Read the complete The Road of Life write-up.
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about 171 km into the recorded legs you reach The Road of Life. Next is back through Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov, late in the day. Next is Yu.P.Samoilova's Villa, 81 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Yu.P.Samoilova's Villa write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Yu.P.Samoilova's Villa. That is the ride.
Yu.P.Samoilova's Villa → Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov → The Road of Life is 110 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
The Road of Life → back through Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov is 120 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Historical Centre of the Town of Lomonosov → Yu.P.Samoilova's Villa is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.