In the late 18th century, Sergey Semyonovich Tryndin, who worked as a mechanic at Moscow University, became the first Russian optician to open his own optical workshop. In 1809, he also founded the first optical store in Russia, located in the house of Prince Golitsyn on Kuznetsky Most. This year is considered the official beginning of the Tryndin firm.

Later, the Tryndins acquired a plot at the corner of Bolshaya Lubyanka and Bolshoy Kiselyov Lane. In 1884, architect August Weber built a factory building for the firm "E.S. Tryndina & Co," which produced physical, optical, geodetic instruments, and medical devices. Storage facilities were located in the courtyard of house No. 14 on Bolshoy Kiselyov Lane.

Twenty years later, the factory building was expanded according to the same architect's design. At this time, the house with the branded store on the first floor, facing Bolshaya Lubyanka, was also reconstructed. The eclectic facades of the building were adorned with elements of Art Nouveau, and on the roof, in the left part of the building, one of the first astronomical observatories in Moscow was established.

In addition to the store, there was a pawnshop in the house. The "Moscow Leaf" reported on March 19 (6), 1902, about the theft of a coat from 14-year-old Akimova at the branch of the "Credit Society for Pledged Movable Property," located in the Tryndin house on Bolshaya Lubyanka.

Since 1886, the Tryndin firm received the right to depict the state coat of arms on its products. In 1900, at the World Exhibition in Paris, it was awarded the highest prize, "Grand prix." In October 1914, the trading house "E.S. Tryndina & Co" was transformed into the Joint-Stock Trading and Industrial Partnership "E.S. Tryndina & Co." After 1917, the factory was nationalized and became the state factory for experimental and measuring instruments "Metron." Part of the factory premises was converted into a dormitory, which was also located in the former Tryndin house on Bolshaya Lubyanka.

In 1937, the factory was renamed "State Union Factory No. 214" and adapted for the production of aviation technology. With the onset of the war, the factory was evacuated to Sverdlovsk, and in 1946, the "Ural Instrument-Making Plant" was opened on its basis, which continues to operate and specializes in the production of aviation instruments and artificial lung ventilation devices.

In the Soviet years, the observatory was transferred to the Moscow Department of Public Education, and later to the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. It was finally dismantled at the end of the 20th century.

Currently, the building is protected by the state as a cultural heritage site of regional significance.