Yelagin Palace is a Palladian-style villa with Neoclassical interiors. It was built in 1822 on the site of an earlier mansion from Catherine the Great's reign. Alexander I bought the estate from Yelagin's heirs and asked Carlo Rossi to redesign it. The article's introduction says it was designed for Alexander's mother, Maria Fyodorovna. Giacomo Quarenghi may have designed the first villa on the site. Giovanni Battista Scotti, Vasily Demuth-Malinovsky and Stepan Pimenov decorated the interiors.
Nicholas II leased it to prime ministers, and Pyotr Stolypin lived in a wing in 1908. The Council of Ministers met there in 1914.
War fire damaged it during the siege of Leningrad, and it was rebuilt in the 1950s. Since 1987 it has housed a museum of 18th- and 19th-century objets d'art.
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