In Stoleshniki Lane, a four-story income house with a rich facade in Russian style attracts attention. It was built in 1883 by architect Ivan Semyonovich Bogomolov, who also developed the project for the monument to A. S. Pushkin, created by sculptor A. M. Opekushin. The owner of the building was Alexei Ivanovich Karzinkin, a hereditary honorary citizen and representative of the older branch of a well-known merchant family, co-owner of the Yaroslavl Large Manufactory and the Balashikha Paper Products Manufactory. His cousin Sergey Sergeyevich Karzinkin built the famous “Large Moscow Hotel,” which later became part of the “Moscow” hotel and was demolished in the 1970s.

The Karzinkins owned many income houses in Moscow. For example, a relative of Alexei Ivanovich, Andrei Alexandrovich Karzinkin, owned house No. 14 on the opposite side of Stoleshniki Lane, designed in the style of baroque-classicized eclecticism. Legends about the Karzinkins circulated, which entered the book by E. Z. Baranov “Moscow Legends,” where they are dedicated a separate chapter. In the 1880s, the famous chronicler of Moscow, Vladimir Alekseevich Gilyarovsky, lived in A. I. Karzinkin's house. He often hosted figures of literature and art. Gilyarovsky lived in the Karzinkin house for three years before moving to the neighboring house No. 9, on the facade of which a memorial plaque in his honor is installed. It is important to note that at that time, the numbering of houses was different, as Stoleshniki Lane started from Bolshaya Dmitrovka, not from Tverskaya Street, as it does now.

Besides Gilyarovsky, at different times, opera artist Platon Tsesovich, playwright Valery Frid, actress Darya Zerkalova, and poet Musa Jalil, executed in 1944 in Plötzensee prison in Berlin and posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, lived here. A memorial plaque dedicated to Jalil is installed on the facade of the building. During the Soviet era, a popular store called “Torts,” known to many Muscovites, was located on the first floor of the house. Currently, the Karzinkin income house is protected by the state as a cultural heritage site of regional significance.