The building on Leninsky Prospect, 14, is based on U-shaped chambers built in 1756 as the main house of the estate created by P. A. Demidov, the son of a Ural factory owner and a well-known amateur gardener.

On the garden facade, a balcony on columns was placed between the risalits. For several years, Demidov acquired land from Moscow owners in his wife's name. In 1754, a courtyard with the house of F. I. Soymonov, a famous navigator and cartographer, was added to these holdings, allowing the area to be rounded and occupy the entire territory between "the moat and the road leading from the Church of the Risen to the Moscow River."

A petition dated April 10, 1756, from nobleman P. A. Demidov and his wife Matryona Antipova requested permission to build "stone chambers." A resolution was received: "it is permitted to build according to the attached plan of architect Yakovlev." The courtyard in front of the house was surrounded by stone service buildings and an iron fence cast at Demidov's factories. Behind the house, on the bank of the Moscow River, a terraced garden with exotic plants was laid out.

Next to Demidov's estate was a large property owned by manufacturer F. I. Serikov, the southern part of which passed to F. G. Orlov in 1786. After Demidov's death, his estate and Serikov's property were acquired by the Vyazemskys, and seven years later, by F. G. Orlov. In 1796, after his death, the entire territory was inherited by the underage daughter of his brother, A. G. Orlov-Chesmensky.

Demidov's chambers became the main house, remodeled in 1804 in the style of mature classicism. A feature is the portico on the central risalit of the main facade: four pairs of Corinthian columns support a decorative wall with arches, into which the windows of the third floor open. Semi-circular balconies on low columns are located in front of the side risalits.

In 1832, A. A. Orlova sold the estate to the Palace Department, and it became known as Neskuchny Garden. The main house became Orlova's house, named Alexandrine Palace in honor of Nicholas I's wife. The last reconstruction of the palace was carried out by architects Tyurin and Mironovsky.

The palace became the center of the royal residence, with a ceremonial alley leading to it adorned with gates decorated with sculptural groups symbolizing abundance (sculptor Vitali, 1846). The ceremonial courtyard was framed by the Freilinsky and Cavalry corps, and a small guardhouse was built nearby. An iron fountain fit well into the ensemble, although it appeared almost a century later, in 1936, when the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences was located in the building of the Alexandrine Summer Palace. Previously, the fountain stood in Lubyanka Square, where it served as a water intake basin for water from the Mytishchi water supply.

An interesting fact: in the first post-revolutionary decade, the Moscow Museum of Furniture was located here, mentioned in Ilf and Petrov's book "The Twelve Chairs." It was here that Ostap Bender and Kisa Vorobyaninov searched for the "precious chairs."

In 2018, the Department of Cultural Heritage of Moscow allowed scientific and research work for the restoration of the entrance gates and the iron fountain on the territory of the Alexandrine Palace in Neskuchny Garden.

Restorers leveled the right (northern) pylon and began repairing the leaning left (southern) one. The massive white stone structures are the main elements of the ceremonial gates, on which antique statues of men and women with horns of plenty are located. The composition is called "The Seasons."