The one-story wooden house with a mezzanine and three windows is a typical example of Moscow's architecture after the fire of the 1820s.

According to Moscow's archival records, in 1829, the owner of this building was college secretary T.D. Sleptsova. In the summer of the same year, the house was rented by Sergey Timofeevich Aksakov, a renowned Russian writer, state official, public figure, as well as a literary and theatrical critic, memoirist, and author of books on fishing and hunting. He also studied butterflies. Aksakov lived here with his family until 1833.

The large and close-knit Aksakov family held "literary Saturdays," which attracted many guests. Among them was the then little-known writer who had recently published "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka." Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol visited this house in the summer of 1832 along with historian M.P. Pogodin. For Gogol, who was visiting Moscow for the first time, a warm welcome was organized here.