Grigory Dmitriyevich Stroganov

In 1688 Grigory Dmitriyevich Stroganov (1650–1715) became the sole owner of all the family’s vast estates. He built and equipped two naval vessels for Peter I the Great and aided him financially. He was made a baron. In 1798 the tsar Paul I raised Grigory Dmitriyevich’s heirs…