Name
Various explanations are given for the name, presumably derived from some member of the large and important Stroganov family, perhaps Alexander Grigorievich Stroganoff of Odessa or a diplomat, Count Pavel Stroganov.
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“What is it? a learned man
Could give it a clumsy name.
Let him name it who can,
The beauty would be the same.”
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