STROGANOV PALACE

A branch of the Russian Museum
17 Nevsky prospekt 191186 St. Petersburg
Open: 10am - 5pm
Closed: Tuesdays
Tel. 219-1608
Nearest metro stations: Nevsky prospekt and Gostiny Dvor

The Stroganov Palace was built by the architect Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli in 1753. Some of its interiors were redesigned and finished in the 1790s by Andrei Voronikhin. Commissioned by Count Sergei Stroganov, a well-known connoisseur of art, the palace very soon became a depository for various art collections, including Western European and Russian painting.

The Stroganovs owned the palace until 1917. After the revolution it was opened to visitors as a museum of history and everyday life (subsequently dissolved). In 1991 it was turned over to the Russian Museum.

Once the current restoration work is complete, the Stroganov Palace will house an exhibition of Russian decorative and applied arts from the 19th and 20th centuries. The rooms that have already been restored house temporary displays from the reserves of the Russian Museum and an exhibition of wax figures of members of the Romanov family.