Baron Sergei Grigoriyevich Stroganov commissioned the palace in 1752, and Bartolomeo Rastrelli designed it. It was built in 1753 and 1754 on a site that held a two-story house by Mikhail Zemtsov from the 1740s. The article calls it Late Baroque, though the link points to Rococo, and notes neoclassical interiors by Andrei Voronikhin from around 1790 to 1810. Carlo Rossi decorated an apartment in 1820, and most of it later disappeared. The article gives no materials or dimensions.
The Stroganov family owned it until its nationalization in 1917. Soviet authorities made it a museum, then gave it to a botanical institute and the Ministry of Shipbuilding. Restoration began in 1991, and the walls were repainted light pink.
Since 1988 it has been a branch of the Russian Museum. The article says it is one of the few Baroque structures on Nevsky Prospect to keep its original appearance.
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