The income house of merchant M. Korovin occupies a significant plot on Petrovka Street. In the 1730s-40s, there was the estate of Senator V. Novosiltsev, which his children sold to A. Nekrasov, the great-grandfather of poet N. Nekrasov. The Nekrasov house, built in 1793, became the foundation of the current income house located along the red line of Petrovka.

After Nekrasov's death, his widow sold the plot to Sergeant N. Ovtsyn. From the 1820s, the building ceased to be exclusively residential. The Ovtsyns' house opened the "Petrovskaya Pharmacy" run by pharmacist I. Auerbach, later there was a homeopathic pharmacy by A. Forbrikher and a shop of the Gas Society.

In October 1871, the house opened the "Petrovskaya Clinic for Outpatient Patients," where well-known Moscow doctors worked: F. Haag, N. Hahman, A. Levintal, D. Nasonov, and others.

From the early 20th century, the plot belonged to merchant M. Korovin. In 1897, architect I. Kondratenko began constructing a new income house in eclectic style, completing it in 1899. The house was richly decorated with stucco.

The first floor of the building is occupied by shops. Over time, there were a confectionery of the Einem Society and a barbershop "I. Andreev and Sons". The former serf Ivan Kozyrev, known as Andreev, gained worldwide fame and the title of professor of barbering in Paris.

The residential part of the building can be accessed through two entrances, above which are decorated bay windows. In the center of the building, above the cartouche with the construction dates, there is a niche with a lamp.

The passage arch leads to the internal structures of the income house, where apartments were rented out.

In building 5 on the third floor in apartment 35, Chekhov lived in 1903-04. The ascent to the third floor was for the ailing playwright a "feat of a great martyr," as he himself wrote.

On January 17, 1904, from this apartment, Chekhov went to the Moscow Art Theatre to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his literary activity, and congratulations and postcards continued to arrive at the Petrovka apartment for a long time.

In one of the wings of the Korovin house lived architect V. Zalesky, and in 1919, Yesenin briefly stayed here.

Today, the first floor of the house is still occupied by shops, some of which retain elements of the former decor.