The construction was commissioned by N. A. Sebyakov, a nobleman and descendant of Don Cossacks, born in the late 1850s. From 1894 to 1898, he served as the district leader of the nobility of the Ust-Medveditsky district, located on the banks of the Don and now known as the city of Serafimovich in the Rostov region. By 1895, Sebyakov had attained the rank of collegiate adviser according to the table of ranks. In the 1890s and 1900s, he held various positions in the same district: he was the honorary inspector of the educational district, an honorary justice of the peace, a trustee of the Sidor rural school, and an actual member of the regional statistical committee. In 1909, Sebyakov moved to Moscow and settled there with his family, wife Lydia Ivanovna and daughter Anna, after the completion of the income house. In 1913, he became the vice-commander of the Yalta yacht club and a member of the Yalta port affairs presence. In the early 20th century, Sebyakov owned a brick factory, a bird cordon on Lake Olkhovoe, two mills on the Medveditsa and Tishanka rivers, as well as a farm and estate on the Tishanka river. He passed away in 1923 at a Russian hospital in Piraeus, Greece.

Little is known about the project's author, V. I. Rubanov. He graduated from the St. Petersburg Institute of Civil Engineers in 1899 and worked in Moscow from 1905 to 1912. The income house on Bolshoy Kozykhinsky is the only known construction by the engineer. His birth and death dates are unknown.

The facade of the house is executed in a restrained asymmetric style, although it is symmetrical from the second to the fifth floors. The first floor is rusticated, the second and third are covered with a "rough" cement coat, while the fourth and fifth are finished with smooth plaster. The most decoration is concentrated on the third floor: rectangular inserts with stucco above and below the windows. Here, one can see elements stylized in the Empire style of the 1820s-1830s: medallions with wreaths, garlands, torches, and female masks. Simpler stucco decorates the niches above the windows of the fourth floor. The original doors of the entrance halls have not survived, but inserts with bas-reliefs on ancient themes remain.

This house was home to the artist A. V. Lentulov (1882-1943), who lived here from the time of its construction until 1943 on the fifth floor in apartment 10. Lentulov was one of the founders of the artists' society "Bubnovy Valet" of the early avant-garde era. His apartment often hosted famous artists, writers, poets, musicians, and actors such as S. Yesenin, P. Konchalovsky, M. Voloshin, I. Severyanin, A. Diky, R. Falk, I. Mashkov, A. N. Tolstoy, A. Pirogov, A. Tairov, and A. Koonen.

Until 1923, the writer, publicist, and playwright M. Artsybashov (1878-1927) also lived here. In the 1900s, he wrote a number of works on acute social themes, and his novel "Sanin" from 1907 became the most successful and scandalous, facing criticism. Before the revolution, several silent short films were made based on his scripts, such as "The Shame of Debauchery," "Diary of the Tempted," "The Avenger," and "At the Last Line," but these films have not survived. In 1923, Artsybashov moved to Poland, where he passed away a few years later.

From 1974 to 1981, this house was home to Soviet film director and screenwriter M. Donskoy (1901-1981). Today, the house remains residential.