Stroganov Palace

The Stroganov Palace is a Late Baroque royal residence at the crossing point of the Moika River and Nevsky Prospect in St. Petersburg, Russia. The castle was worked to BartolomeoRastrelli's outlines for Baron Sergei GrigoriyevichStroganov in 1753-1754. The insides were rebuilt by Andrei Voronikhin at the turn of the nineteenth century. The principal house for the Stroganovs was based on the site most likely in the 1720s. It was a one-story building. Modeler Mikhail Zemtsov raised a second, two-story house on the site in the 1740s. In 1752, Baron Sergei Stroganov charged the castle plan from Italian designer Bartolomeo Rastrelli, at that point at work broadening the Catherine Palace and building the Smolny Convent for Empress Elisabeth. Since the Stroganovs were the most extravagant family in Russia and were identified with the Empress by marriage, Rastrelli couldn't turn down the commission and quickly arranged an outline for the townhouse

.Like the Vorontsov Palace, the Stroganov Palace was not quickly constructed. The Main Staircase brightened with marble models prompted the rich Grand Hall, which included a gigantic painting by Venetian craftsman Giuseppe Valeriani. After Sergei Stroganov's demise in 1756, the enrichment was finished by his child Alexander in 1760. Inside quite a while, the new ruler, Catherine II presented the neoclassical taste. The style was likewise championed by Alexander Stroganov, who progressed toward becoming President of the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1800.