Muscovites often passed by the Neskuchny Garden and the Andreevskaya Almshouse on their way to Vorobyovka to cut birch branches for the Feast of the Holy Trinity. I. Shmelev described how they drove past blooming lilacs, inhaling the fragrant May air, and how the scent of lilies of the valley wafted from Neskuchny Garden. Men carried birch trees, while women brought flowers for Trinity.

The Andreevskaya Almshouse was founded in Moscow in 1803 when the Moscow Merchant Society petitioned Emperor Alexander I to create a "poorhouse" for men and women on the site of the former Andreevsky Monastery in Plennitsy. Plennitsy refers to bundles of rafts and logs, or woodpiles.

In 1805, under the project of architect F.K. Sokolov, buildings of the almshouse were constructed with funds from Moscow merchants on the site of the old monastery walls. To this day, only the eastern building from 1805 has survived, the northern building dates back to the mid-19th century, and the southern one was built by architect A. Kaminsky in 1878.

According to legend, the monastery appeared here in the 13th century, but it received the name of Andrew the General only in the 16th century. The church in honor of the martyr Andrew the General was erected in memory of the victory over the Crimean Khan Kızı-Girey in 1591, which is associated with the founding of the male Andreevsky Monastery.

The monastery experienced its greatest flourishing in the 17th century. In 1648, boyar Fyodor Mikhailovich Rtishchev restored the monastery and established a scholarly brotherhood here, inviting 30 monks from Little Russian monasteries to teach grammar, rhetoric, and philosophy. Rtishchev himself spent his days in the palace and nights with the scholarly monks at Andreevsky. This brotherhood later became the basis for the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy, which led to the decline of the monastery, as the monks moved to Kitai-Gorod, and the monastery was annexed to the Zaikonospassky Monastery in 1682.

In 1724, the monastery was abolished, and a school for foundlings and a prison were established within its walls. Six years later, under Anna Ioannovna, the monastery was restored, but only for a short time. In 1765, it was finally closed. Under Catherine II, the former monastery was used to house the insane, and in 1775, a women's labor house was opened here.

In 1803, the Andreevskaya Merchant Almshouse was finally established within the walls of the former monastery. By 1898, it housed 956 people. The patrons of the almshouse were the families of Bakhrushin, Korolev, and Botkin. Merchants and manufacturers donated significant sums for its maintenance. For example, N.G. Zubov bequeathed 200,000 rubles, M.I. Krasheninnikov, 100,000, and S.V. Alexeev, 30,000. In 1885, a department for 40 places was opened with a donation from N.D. Pashkov.

Three churches have survived on the territory of the almshouse: the Andreevsky, the Voznesensky, and the church-bell tower of John the Theologian. They also served as parish churches for the residents of nearby settlements. In 1900, a church-parish school was opened in the Resurrection Church, which existed until 1917.

In 1918, the buildings of the almshouse were transformed into the House-Commune of the 1st Moscow Factory of Goznak. Workers established a school in the church of Saint Andrew the General, while the Church of the Resurrection of Christ became a club. The Church of John the Theologian remained open until the late 1930s.

In the 1960s, it housed the All-Union Research Institute of the Standards Committee, while the almshouse buildings remained residential. The final resettlement occurred by 1980, when the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Meteorological Service was located here.

In 1996, the complex of the Andreevsky Monastery was transferred for indefinite use to the Russian Orthodox Church.