Sergei Grigoryevich Stroganov
Count Sergei Grigoryevich Stroganov was a Russian nobleman, statesman, art historian, archaeologist, collector, and philanthropist. He was a member of the highly successful and prominent Stroganov family He also founded the Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry.
A portrait of Sergei Stroganov in his younger years by Pietro de Rossi (1761-1831).
A portrait of Sergei Stroganov in his later years by Konstantin Makovsky, 1882
The House of Stroganov or Strogonov, French spelling: Stroganoff, was a Russian noble family of highly successful Russian merchants, industrialists, landowners, and statesmen. From the time of Ivan the Terrible they were the richest businessmen in the Tsardom of Russia. They financed the Russian conquest of Siberia and Prince Pozharsky's 1612 reconquest of Moscow from the Poles. The Stroganov School of icon-painting takes its name from them. The most recent common ancestor of the family was Fyodor Lukich Stroganov, a salt industrialist. His elder son, Vladimir, became the founder of a branch whose members eventually became state peasants; this lineage continues. The lineage from Fyodor Lukich Stroganov's youngest son, Anikey (1488–1570), died out in 1923. Anikey's descendants became members of the high Russian nobility under the first Romanovs.
Anikey Stroganov, progenitor of the ennobled branch
17th century Stroganov country house in Solvychegodsk
The Stroganov Palace on Nevsky Avenue in St Petersburg was designed by Bartolomeo Rastrelli
The Baroque Church of the Synaxis of the Mother of God in Nizhny Novgorod underwritten by the Stroganovs in 1697