- Commissioned by very wealthy Count Sergey Stroganov, the palace was occupied by his descendants until the October Revolution of 1917.
- The palace was built to Bartolomeo Rastrelli’s designs for Baron Sergei Grigoriyevich Stroganov in 1753-1754.
- In 1988 Stroganov Palace was handed over to the State Russian Museum, and it began work on the restoration...
- For several centuries, Stroganov Palace belonged to a wealthy family Stroganoff, after which, in fact, this attraction gets its name.
- Unlike the Vorontsov Palace (also designed by Rastrelli for Stroganov's in-law Mikhail Vorontsov), the Stroganov Palace was built very rapidly.
- The palace was built for the Stroganov family between 1752 and 1754 by the Royal Architect Francesco-Bartholomeo Rastrelli, designer of the Winter Palace...
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- Count Sergei Stroganov was a famous connoisseur of art, and this palace soon became home to different art collections with no exception to European and...
- The Stroganov Palace, at number 17 is a Baroque masterpiece by the Italian architect Rastrelli, completed in 1760 and featuring a distinctively elegant facade in...
- The palace was built to Bartolomeo Rastrelli's designs for Baron Sergei Grigoriyevich Stroganov in 1753–1754.