Pavel Sergeyevich Stroganov

Count Pavel Sergeyevich Stroganov (Russian: Па́вел Серге́евич Стро́ганов; 13 April 1823 – 17 December 1911) was an art collector, philanthropist, and cup-bearer at the Imperial Court.

His maternal grandparents were Count Pavel Alexandrovich Stroganov and Princess Sophie Golitsyna (a daughter of Prince Vladimir Borisovich Golitsyn and his wife Nathalia Petrovna).

[2] He graduated from the law faculty of Moscow State University in 1845, after which he entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was posted to the embassy in Rome, as Third Secretary, in 1847.

Having inherited a house from his grandfather, he began remodeling it to suit his collection; hiring the Court Architect, Ippolit Monighetti, to carry out the work.

[4] His home and collection were described in detail by the novelist, Dmitry Grigorovich, in a special edition of Пчела [ru] (The Bee), an arts and literature magazine.