The Cabinet was restored on December 23, 1741, as the personal office of the Empress; Baron Ivan Cherkasov was appointed manager of its affairs.

After the February Revolution of 1917, the Provisional Government decided on March 17 to transfer the Cabinet of His Imperial Majesty to the Ministry of Finance, appointing a member of the State Duma, Ivan Titov, to manage its affairs.

The Minister of Finance Mikhail Tereshchenko was instructed to clarify the issue of the possible use of available funds of the Cabinet in bonds of an internal military loan.

His ceremonial courtyard (Nevsky Prospect, 39) was built up in 1803–1809 by two buildings of the mall, which was designed in the style of mature classicism by Giacomo Quarenghi.

Until 1885, the facades of a building with columns of a "giant" Ionic order penetrated wide arcades, through which a view of the Anichkov Palace opened.

The Cabinet lands were concentrated in Altai (from 1747), in Transbaikal (from 1786), in Poland (Łowicz Principality — 3 counties with several dozen estates).