Grigory Dmitriyevich Stroganov

Grigory Dmitriyevich Stroganov (Russian: Григорий Дмитриевич Строганов) (25 January 1656 – 21 November 1715) was a Russian landowner and statesman, the most notable member of the prominent Stroganov family in the late 17th century-early 18th century, a strong supporter of the reforms and initiatives of Peter the Great.

His name first appears in the public record in 1672, when he visited Moscow with gifts for Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich on the occasion of the birth of Tsarevich Peter.

[1] According to the accounting of Fyodor Volegov (d. 1856),[2] this consolidation increased Grigory Stroganov's personal holdings dramatically, to more than ten million desiatinas of land (103,000 square kilometers) with more than 200 villages and 15,000 adult male serfs.

In 1700 Stroganov funded the construction of four military ships built in Voronezh and Astrakhan to Peter the Great for the nascent Imperial Russian Navy.

After her death, he married Princess Marya Yakovlevna Stroganova Novosiltseva, sister of the Solikamsk governor Vasily Yakovlevich Novosiltsev, in May 1694.