The Naryshkin-Shuvalov Palace is a Neoclassical building at 21 Fontanka Embankment, at Italyanskaya Street, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Building began in the 1780s, and Giacomo Quarenghi is a possible architect. The first owners were Count and Countess Vorontsov. In 1799 Maria Naryshkina bought the palace, and her husband filled it with art and antiquities. Its grand ballroom hosted balls for up to 1,000 people.
It became the Naryshkin-Shuvalov Palace after the 1846 wedding of Sofia Naryshkina and Count Pyotr Pavlovich Shuvalov. Renovation continued until 1859 in a neo-Renaissance style, led by Bernard de Simone and Nikolai Yefimov.
A bomb destroyed the courtyard wing on September 14, 1941. The palace was restored from 2006 to 2012, and the Fabergé Museum has occupied it since 2013.
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