Stroganoff's Palace is a real masterpiece of the architecture of Elisabeth's Baroque. It was designed by Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli and constructed in 1753 for Count Sergei Stroganoff, a great connoisseur of art. Some of the palace interiors were reconstructed and redecorated under the supervision of the architect Andrei Voronikhin in the 1790s.

Count Stroganoff's excellent collection of the works of painting included pictures by Raphael, Poussin, Claude Lorraine and Andrei Matveyev. There was also an excellent collection of sculptures, engravings and foam-like minerals.

The collection of pictures belonging to the Stroganoffs and kept in Stroganoff's Palace was one of the best private collections of painting in pre-revolutionary Russia.

The palace belonged to the Stroganoffs until 1917. After the revolution, Historical Museum of Everyday Life was opened in this building (later the museum was liquidated). In 1991, Stroganoff's Palace was given to the Russian Museum. Now, the palace is under reconstruction. After the end of the reconstruction, it will house the museum collections of the 19 th -20 th -century applied art. The restored rooms of the palace already house temporary exhibitions from the collections of the Russian Museum and an exhibition of wax figures of the representatives of the Romanov dynasty.

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