The "Dussot" hotel was opened in Moscow in the 1860s at the intersection of Teatralny Proezd and Neglinnaya Street.

In the 16th century, this area was located on the banks of the dam of the Neglinnaya River, adjacent to the Cannon Courtyard. In the 1820s, after the Neglinnaya was enclosed in a pipe and the Cannon Courtyard was dismantled, the plot was handed over to the Georgian princes Irakli and Okropir Georgievich. Here was the court of Irakli Georgievich with interesting architectural houses, the Church of the Nativity, and a vast garden. The neighboring plot, owned by Okropir, faced Rozhdestvenka. Later, both properties passed to their sister, Princess Maria Georgievna, and her daughter Tamara.

In the 1830s, the premises in the houses began to be rented out. The large hall of the corner house was occupied by the optical theater "Cosmogram" of Mr. Iozef Pollo, where light pictures with landscapes and paintings were shown.

In the 1860s, the entire building was occupied by the hotel of Karl Dussot.

In the late 1870s, both buildings were acquired by Gerasim Kludov, and then passed to his daughters, wives of well-known merchants: Prokhorova, Vostryakova, and Lukutina.

The hotel continued to operate. In the early 1890s, it was reconstructed according to the design of architect S. Eibushits. The four-story building in eclectic style with balconies and massive stucco, preserved on the facades, can still be recognized today if one mentally removes the two later upper floors.

Characters from the novel "Anna Karenina" lived in the "Dussot" hotel. Levin and Vronsky stayed here, and Stepan Oblonsky found Karenina here: "Was it long ago? I was at Dussot yesterday and saw 'Karenin' on the board, and it didn't even occur to me that it was you!" said Stepan Arkadyevich, poking his head out of the carriage window. "Otherwise, I would have stopped by."

"On the board" meant that all guests were recorded on a chalkboard at the entrance, which sometimes hindered confidentiality. However, Moscow idlers loved to drop by Dussot's buffet and check if any acquaintances had arrived.

In 1866, Dostoevsky stayed at Dussot. He did not like the hotel at that time: in the heat, his room "resembled a Russian stove when they start putting bread in it," and it was impossible to work there. But already in March 1867, he settled at Dussot with his wife.

In June 1882, M. Skobelev died under mysterious circumstances at the Dussot hotel. Officially, the hero of the Balkan War was registered with "heart paralysis," but rumors circulated in Moscow: some believed he was poisoned by agents of foreign states or Freemasons, others thought it was a political assassination. Skobelev's death remains a mystery to this day.

This death had to be investigated by the hero of Akunin's novel, Erast Fandorin, and in 1882, the journalist and well-known Moscow chronicler V. Gilyarovsky took on the case.

A fashionable French restaurant, known throughout Moscow, operated at the Dussot hotel.