During 1752–1757 he studied at the universities of Geneva, Bologna (art treasures), and Paris (chemistry, physics, and metallurgy).

Stroganov was a member of the commission on elaborating the new code of laws during the reign of Catherine the Great (1762–1796).

[1] From 1801 as chairman of a board of trustees, he was a supervisor of the Kazan Cathedral, St.

[2] In 1805 he proposed to Alexander I the establishment of a special Manuscript Depository ("депо манускриптов") at the Imperial Library.

[2] In 1769, he married Princess Ekaterina Petrovna Trubetskaya, a daughter of Prince Peter Nikitich Trubetskoy.