Before the war, there was only one pet store in Moscow, located on Arbat Street in house 30, which was mentioned by Agnia Barto.

Today, it is a restored income house in the Art Nouveau style with smooth lines on the facade, patterned balconies, and a variety of windows and bay windows that adorn Arbat.

Before the early 20th century, there was a mansion on this site where the Decembrist S.D. Nechaev lived. In the 1830s, the relatives of A.I. Herzen, the Nasadkins, resided here, and from 1869 to 1872, the poet Petrashevets A.N. Plescheev lived here. Since 1880, a People's School under the patronage of E.N. Yanzhul was located here.

In the early 20th century, the plot was acquired by Andrei Igorevich Titov, who decided to build an income house here. In 1904, the building designed by architect N. Boborykin appeared on the site of the mansion. It was a 'typical middle-class income house' with eight entrances, housing about one and a half thousand people. Apartments with windows and balconies facing Arbat were more expensive than those facing inward. The courtyard of the income house was closed with cast-iron gates. Before the war, a small patch of green grass with an old tree remained in the shady courtyard.

Memorial plaques with the names of famous residents are installed on the facade of the building. The artist Sergey Vasilyevich Ivanov (1864-1910), whose works are in the Tretyakov Gallery, lived here. Traveler Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov (1863-1935), whose research in Mongolia and Tibet became classics, lived in apartment No. 9. The writer Yuri Kazakov (1927-1982) also resided here.

However, the most famous resident of house 30 was A.V. Suvorin. At the address 'on Arbat, 30, Titov's house, tel. 58-78' was the editorial office and commercial office of the annual 'All Moscow', published by 'A.V. Suvorin Society'. This annual, published for several decades, was a social chronicle of Moscow, containing a list of institutions and residents of the city. The publication ceased in 1918, and an attempt to revive it in 1923 was unsuccessful, leading to its closure in 1936. The publication is now experiencing its third wave.

House 30 was also known as the address of the only pet store in the city. The store occupied the first floor, and children always gathered at its windows, looking at fish and birds. In the courtyard and entrances of the house, there was a small market where one could buy elite pigeons, rare fish, and in spring, chicks.

In the 1980s, the house was rebuilt, and communal apartments were transformed into separate ones. Now it is an elite house on the central street of Moscow, and a pet store still operates on the first floor.