Originally, the estate belonged to the noblewoman Elena Andreyevskaya. In 1837, the Russian poet Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky visited her house, as he was well acquainted with her husband, a general and hero of the Patriotic War of 1812.

In the mid-19th century, the estate was acquired by retired engineer-captain Sergey Lion. In 1849, he transferred it to the Tambov gymnasium. Subsequently, a boarding school for noble children was opened here, with Lion himself as the guardian. In 1866, with his consent, the boarding school's premises were handed over to a first-class women's school, which later became the provincial women's gymnasium.

The gymnasium became an educational institution for all classes with a seven-year curriculum. After an additional year of study, graduates were granted the right to work as teachers.

In the early 20th century, a second floor was added to the single-story wing adjacent to the southern wall. On the brink of World War I, the gymnasium had an assembly hall, a gymnasium, a library, a physics lab, and several classrooms.

In 1914, the building housed the lower ranks of a cavalry unit. After the revolution, various educational institutions were located here: a hydromelioration technical school, a teacher training college, and in the late 1960s, the directing department of the Tambov branch of the Moscow State Institute of Culture.

Currently, it houses the Tambov Regional Institute for Advanced Training of Education Workers, the Civil Registry Office, and other institutions.