Chizhovskoye Courtyard, the largest and most famous in Kitai-Gorod, is located at the corner of Bogoyavlensky Lane and Nikolskaya Street, extending to the Sheremetev estate. Previously, there was the Church of the Myrrh-Bearing Women, first mentioned in 1595. At that time, it was wooden and restored after a fire. In 1647, the church was rebuilt in stone, and in 1774, it was sold to Count P.B. Sheremetev. In 1808, the church was dismantled, and its bricks were used to build the bell tower of the Church of Cosmas and Damian.

In the early 17th century, the property located to the right of the Church of the Myrrh-Bearing Women belonged to Prince Andrei Telyatevsky. After the Telyatevsky line ended in the mid-17th century, part of the property went to Boris Mikhailovich Saltykov, and the other part to his brother Mikhail. In 1691, M.M. Saltykov built the Church of the Assumption in the Naryshkin Baroque style, which became the family temple of the Saltykovs. In 1763, both parts of the property united under the ownership of Ekaterina Mikhailovna Saltykova.

It is likely that since 1758, the plot belonged to Princess Natalia Borisovna Dolgorukova, the widow of Prince Ivan Dolgorukov. In 1730, she married the disgraced favorite of Tsar Peter II and went into exile with him, losing her fortune. In 1740, she returned from exile, and possibly her brother bought her this property. In 1769, the plot passed to her son Prince Mikhail Ivanovich Dolgorukov, who sold it in 1773 to Count Valentin Platonovich Musin-Pushkin.

From 1785 to 1791, the plot belonged to General Mikhail Sergeyevich Potemkin, a distant relative of Prince G.A. Potemkin. After his death in 1791, the property passed to his sister Pelageya, who sold it to Pyotr Alekseevich Kusovnikov in 1798. In 1811, Kusovnikov acquired the church plot from the Sheremetevs. During the fire of 1812, Kusovnikov's properties were not damaged, as the French army's quartermaster was stationed there.

In 1842, the plot was purchased by brothers Gavriil and Alexey Vasilyevich Chizhov, owners of a banking office. They reconstructed the plot, creating a complex of three-story buildings known as "Chizhovskoye Courtyard." It housed a hotel, shops, and storage facilities. The courtyard included the shop of merchant Ivan Shchukin, a store of the Kushnerev publishing house, and a granary of the Prokhorov textile factory. The hotel was home to Louise Simon-Demansh, the beloved of A.V. Sukhov-Kobylin, who was killed under mysterious circumstances. Before the revolution, there were hotels "Torgovaya" and "Chizhovskoye Courtyard," and at the corner with Bogoyavlensky Lane, a store of the firm "Ralle and Co."

After the revolution in 1918, the buildings were occupied by employees of the People's Commissariat of Transport. From the 1920s, it housed the 3rd House of the Revolutionary Military Council, where Blucher, Tukhachevsky, Rokossovsky, Timoshenko, and Novikov lived, while the church was occupied by the People's Commissariat for Military and Naval Affairs.

In 2000, large-scale reconstruction began, during which the internal trading and storage buildings of the 19th century were demolished. A five-story parking lot was built in their place. The reconstruction plan includes preserving the street facade and transforming the complex into an office and shopping center with underground parking, restaurants, shops, and cinemas.